State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 2009
13 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 Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Newman Oil Co. · State v. Smith · State v. Phillips · State v. Weekley · State v. Burr
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The trial judge’s determination of the qualifications of prospective jurors necessarily involves a judgment based upon personal observation of each venireman’s demeanor and the nuance of his answers. ... As the trial judge is in a far better position than we from a cold record to make that determination, any doubts as to the trial court’s findings will be resolved in its favor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Keeven
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.