Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 2012
1 federal appellate · 12 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 Cuyler v. Sullivan · Holloway v. Arkansas · United States v. Garcia · United States v. Alvarez · 524 So. 2d 313 - Cabello 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[P]rejudice is presumed only if the defendant demonstrates that counsel `actively represented conflicting interests' and that `an actual conflict of interest adversely affected his lawyer's performance.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Carter v. State · Jenkins v. State“[t]he effective right of counsel encompasses the right to representation by an attorney who does not owe conflicting duties to other defendants.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Moreover, undivided loyalty of defense counsel is essential to the due process guarantee of the Fifth Amendment.”
3 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.