Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
2
states following
November 1979
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Chaney · Waters v. State · Nicholas v. State · Galaktionoff 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In general, maximum sentences should not be imposed without some foundation for characterizing a defendant as the worst type of offender.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fox 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.