Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
May 2009
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Thomas v. State · Beecham v. State · Cerda v. State · Munoz v. State · Misner 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“deadly force could not have reasonably been believed to be immediately necessary to protect [the defendant] against [the victim]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Trammell 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.