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Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1980

Citation profile

11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
September 2010
most recently cited

11 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 2010

11 state decisions

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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 Cumbie v. State · Ronk v. State · Lang v. State

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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Terry Hawkins ... did then and there intentionally and knowingly, by omission, engage in conduct that caused serious bodily injury to ... a child younger than fourteen (14) years of age, by failing to provide protection for the said [child], to-wit: by failing to remove the said [child] from the presence of Teresa Hutchins aka Teresa Hawkins when he knew that Teresa Hutchins aka Teresa Hawkins was a threat to the health and safety of the said [child], and Terry Hawkins had then and there assumed care, custody, and control of [the child]. [Emphasis added.]”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Hawkins v. State
  2. “(a) A person commits an offense only if he voluntarily engages in conduct, including an act, an omission or possession. * * # * * * (c) A person who omits to perform an act does not commit an offense unless a statute provides that the omission is an offense or otherwise provides that he has a duty to perform the act.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Billingslea 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.