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← 661 SO2D 358 - Smith v. State

Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1995

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
May 2017
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on JEB v. Alabama Ex Rel. TB · 246 So. 2d 771 - Richardson v. State · 573 So. 2d 306 - State v. Smith · State v. Johans · 642 So. 2d 542 - Abshire 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “evidence of the victim’s reputation is admissible to disclose his or her propensity for violence and the likelihood that the victim was the aggressor, while evidence of prior specific acts of violence by the victim is admissible to reveal the reasonableness of the defendant’s apprehension at the time of the incident.”
    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.