State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably State v. Ortiz (1993), State v. Tamura (1981)
2 federal appellate · 67 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 751
Relies on Barker v. Wingo · State v. Rocker · State v. Cummings · State v. Cannon · State v. Kekaualua
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is not treatable in any available institution or facility within the State designed for the care and treatment of children, or that the safety of the community requires that the person continue under judicial restraint for a period extending beyond his minority.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. English · State v. Stanley“Sexual abuse in the first degree. (1) A person commits the offense of sexual abuse in the first degree if: (a) He intentionally, by forcible compulsion, has sexual contact with another or causes another to have sexual contact with him; or (b) He intentionally has sexual contact with another person who is less than fourteen years old or causes such a person to have sexual contact with him. (2) Sexual abuse in the first degree is a class C felony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Rodgers“Principles of construction. The provisions of this Code cannot be extended by analogy so as to create crimes not provided for herein; however, in order to promote justice and effect the objects of the law, all of its provisions shall be given a genuine construction, according to the fair import of the words, taken in then-usual sense, in connection with the context, and with reference to the purpose of the provision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Buch
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.