State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 2008 · most notably State v. Kelekolio (1993), State v. Wallace (1996)
26 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 Bates v. State Bar · Salem v. United States Lines Company · Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe · Finch v. Connor · School Board of Richmond v. State Board of Education
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]vidence is relevant if it tends to prove a fact in controversy or renders a matter in issue more or less probable”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. IOANE
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.