615 So. 2d 69 - Smith v. King’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 2015
10 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 555 So. 2d 81 - Phillips v. Thomas · Barnes v. Dale · 413 So. 2d 391 - DeStafney v. University of Alabama · Grant v. Davis · Bell v. Chisom
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.
“"Even if that defense [of State-agent immunity] was not available, we note that there is no evidence in the record that these defendants either should have or could have foreseen that Derryl Smith would take his own life. . . . The trial court correctly concluded, based on all the pleadings and evidence, that, at the time and place it occurred, Derryl Smith's suicide was not reasonably foreseeable by these defendants."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In Smith v. Arnold , ... we recognized that the mental health profession, by its very nature, necessarily involves discretion and difficult decisionmaking.”
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.