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← 549 SO2D 1147 - Smith v. State

Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1989

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
March 2006
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Faretta v. California · 430 So. 2d 448 - Smith v. State · 420 So. 2d 908 - Keene v. State · 415 So. 2d 874 - Drago v. State · 450 So. 2d 925 - DiBartolomeo 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “the potential sentence he might face if found guilty”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “the pitfalls of acting as his own lawyer”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.