581 So. 2d 1283 - Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently August 2011 · most notably Lancaster v. State (1993), Ex Parte Walker (2000)
35 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Ex Parte Branch · 471 So. 2d 1257 - Ex Parte Boatwright · 556 So. 2d 1094 - Sheats v. State · Ex Parte Floyd
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`When the State does not respond to a petitioner's allegations, the unrefuted statement of facts must be taken as true.'”
18 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Lewis v. State · Goetzman 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.