573 So. 2d 306 - State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 106 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 900 So. 2d 495 - Fitzpatrick v. State (2005), Gudinas v. State (1997)
1 federal appellate · 106 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Jenkins v. Anderson · 491 So. 2d 1129 - State v. DiGuilio · Ingraham v. Wright · Tison v. Arizona
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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“witnesses to be impeached by their previous failure to state a fact in circumstances in which that fact naturally would have been asserted.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[h]owever, if a dangerous weapon was used in the combat or the killing was done in a cruel or unusual manner, the killing is not excusable,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Radillo v. State · Gillen v. State“[e]vidence or argument that is fairly susceptible of being deemed a comment on the right of silence should be excluded.”
4 later decisions 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.