Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 2013
17 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 CNG Development Co. v. Limbach · Dowd, Warden v. Johnston · Hoage v. State · Smith v. State · Brock 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“on probation ... for a fixed period of not more than one (1) year”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] person who commits a Class A misdemeanor shall be imprisoned for a fixed term of not more than one (1) year.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Stewart v. State · Jester v. State“whenever the court suspends a sentence for a felony, it shall place the person on probation under IC 35-38-2 for a fixed period to end not later than the date that the maximum sentence that may be imposed for the felony will expire.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Copeland 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.