531 So. 2d 1245 - Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably Taylor v. State (1994), Hall v. State (1999)
30 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Castaneda v. Partida · Avery v. State of Georgia · Ex Parte Branch · 457 So. 2d 481 - State v. Neil
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“sat on a jury in a criminal case that returned a verdict of not guilty”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“After applying the principles of Batson [ v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 , 106 S.Ct. 1712 , 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986),] and [ Ex parte ] Branch [ 526 So.2d 609 (Ala.1987),] to the instant case, we conclude that the trial court accurately concluded that the prosecutor did not use his peremptory strikes for a discriminatory purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“was opposed to capital punishment, had problems with sitting in judgment of others”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.