Smith v. Farley’s Empirical Analysis
59 F.3d 659 · 1995
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Surinder Bains v. Gomez Steve Cambra (2000), Commonwealth v. Gibson (2008)
14 federal appellate · 4 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 Bruton v. United States · Payton v. New York · Gregg v. Georgia · Estelle v. McGuire · Furman v. Georgia
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f you kill a policem[a]n and are put on trial for the crime, you must expect the courtroom audience to include policemen.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones v. Davis · Lambert v. State“There is no place in a criminal prosecution for gratuitous references to race, especially when a defendant's life hangs in the balance. Elementary concepts of equal protection and due process alike forbid a prosecutor to seek to procure a verdict on the basis of racial animosity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[Wle cannot say that this single, ambiguous sentence in a long closing argument ereated an atmosphere of intimidation merely because of the presence of some policemen in the courtroom as spectators.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lambert 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.