State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently May 2000
2 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 State v. Cuckovich · State v. Holt · State v. Van Horn · State v. Oliver · State v. Wynn
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Considering all of the testimony, and the facts and circumstances, Mrs. Ray’s identification of appellant as the culprit is not so inherently unbelievable or improbable that it should be disregarded as a matter of law, thus causing the state’s ease to fail.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lee“due diligence in securing the attendance of the witness, or his testimony by deposition for a year before trial,”
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.