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← 555 S.W.2d 747 - Smith v. State

Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1977

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
May 1988
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Harris v. State · Bradford v. State · Sanchez 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. “whether the evidence in [that] case [was] sufficient to support the jury's determination that appellant should have been aware that [prosecutrix] was so mentally diseased as to be unable to give consent”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “to have no will to oppose the act of carnal knowledge, the person having carnal knowledge knowing her to be so mentally diseased.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “The defendant worked as a maintenance man at the nursing home and had”
    1 later decision 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.