606 So. 2d 641 - Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Adjutant (2005), State v. Green (1995)
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 419 So. 2d 1194 - Thomas v. Ratiner · Myers v. State · 467 So. 2d 998 - Florida Bar v. Hawkins · Garner v. State · 463 So. 2d 242 - Johns-Manville Sales Corp. v. Janssens
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"If there is the slightest evidence of an overt act by the victim which may reasonably be regarded as placing the defendant in imminent danger, all doubts as to the admission of self-defense evidence must be resolved in favor of the accused."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“`reveal the reasonableness of the defendant's apprehension at the time of the incident.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. State · Smith v. State“must lay a proper predicate demonstrating some overt act by the victim at or about the time of the incident which reasonably indicated to the defendant a need for action in self defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.