Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 2001
19 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 Frison v. State · Lyons v. State · Royal v. Cameron · Turner v. State · Sierra 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the instant case, after Rouchell had identified appellant at trial, appellant’s lengthy cross-examination elicited testimony from Rouchell that he had never seen appellant before the day of the shooting, that he did not know what appellant was wearing on the day in question, that he remembered the man who shot him was ‘five foot seven or eleven,’ and that he did not know whether the man who shot him had a ‘mustache or a goatee or any kind of facial hair on the 25th of November’ or whether he was well shaven. In light of appellant having ‘impeached or attempted to impeach’ Rouchell regarding his identification of appellant, we find no error in the court admitting the testimony of officers Huffman and Crowder that Rouchell identified appellant at the scene of the wreck.. . . ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roney 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.