554 So. 2d 676 - State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2016 · most notably Sawyer v. Smith (1990), State v. Smith (1992)
28 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 Berger v. United States · Caldwell v. Mississippi · Zant v. Stephens · Mahan & Rowsey, Inc. v. Oklahoma Natural Gas · Michelson v. United States
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t has consistently been held to be reversible error for the prosecutor to express his belief in the guilt of the accused, or the credibility of a key witness, where doing so implies that he has additional knowledge or information about the case which has not been disclosed to the jury.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Davenport · State v. Riley“[b]efore a reviewing court may declare the erroneous admission of evidence to have been harmless, or not prejudicial, the state must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the error complained of did not contribute to the verdict obtained.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]n a case involving capital punishment anything less than this court's careful consideration of the entire record for possible prejudicial error would not afford `an adequate remedy by due process of law and justice.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.