Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
March 2001
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Rogers v. Richmond · Smith v. State · Glover v. State · Ashby v. State · Kelly 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.
“Clearly the State must introduce evidence during the habitual proceeding to prove the two priors. On the other hand, the jury hearing the habitual evidence already knows the defendant committed the crime of which it has just found him guilty. The statute does not require the State to reprove that fact a second time to the same jurors.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Payne v. State · Wade v. State“was such as to overbear the defendant's will to resist and to bring about a confession not freely self-determined.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bivins 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.