Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 2008
11 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 513 So. 2d 122 - State v. Fundora · 498 So. 2d 906 - Jackson v. State · McElveen v. State · Gibbs v. State · State v. Gibbs
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]vidence that deals only with similar sex acts against the victim in the case being tried is far less subject to objection than evidence of similar acts against other victims.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The charged and collateral offenses must be not only strikingly similar but they must also share some unique characteristic or combination of characteristics which sets them apart from other offenses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lazarowicz 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.