Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
August 1983
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Battle v. State · Lovell v. State · Haney v. State · Poke v. State · Calhoun 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Every person convicted of murder in the second degree shall be punished by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for not less than 10 (10) years nor more than life. The trial court shall set an indeterminate sentence in accordance with this section upon a finding of guilty by the jury of murder in the second degree.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Layton v. State · Wampler 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.