661 So. 2d 442 - State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
687 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 690 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 3 So. 3d 685 - State v. Eason (2009), 956 So. 2d 758 - State v. Hill (2007)
687 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 Jackson v. Virginia · 365 So. 2d 1304 - State v. Phillips · 635 So. 2d 168 - State v. Stowe · 490 So. 2d 255 - State v. Williams · 633 So. 2d 142 - State v. Baxley
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 690 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A. Forcible rape is rape committed when the anal, oral, or vaginal sexual intercourse is deemed to be without the lawful consent of the victim because it is committed under any one or more of the following circumstances: (1) When the victim is prevented from resisting the act by force or threats of physical violence under circumstances where the victim reasonably believes that such resistance would not prevent the rape.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jones · State v. Calhoun“A. Any person who, having a specific intent to commit a crime, does or omits an act for the purpose of and tending directly toward the accomplishing of his object is guilty of an attempt to commit the offense intended; and it shall be immaterial whether, under the circumstances, he would have actually accomplished his purpose.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]t is not the function of an appellate court to assess credibility or reweigh the evidence.”
5 later decisions 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.