Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently October 2006 · most notably Flores v. State (1977), Sutherlin v. State (1984)
26 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Barnes v. United States · Callahan v. State · Chambers v. State · State v. Clark · Huff v. State
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Evidence that a defendant had the personal possession of property recently stolen is not sufficient to sustain his conviction for the theft of that property if when he was first directly or circumstantially called upon to explain his possession of the property he made a reasonable explanation which is not refuted, showing his honest acquisition of the property.” Smith v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 518 S.W.2d 823, 824 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Musgrave v. State · Adams v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.