Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2012 · most notably Estelle v. Smith (1981), Franklin v. Lynaugh (1988)
4 federal appellate · 74 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Jurek v. Texas · Proffitt v. Florida · Hernandez v. Texas
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(2) whether there is a probability that the defendant would commit criminal acts of violence that would constitute a continuing threat to society;””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“that caused the death of the deceased was committed deliberately,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Milton v. State · Meanes v. State““His entire conduct was calculated and remorseless, and the jury was justified in finding that this appellant will always constitute a continuing threat to society.” Id., at 697 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Meanes v. State · Thomas 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.