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Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1984

Citation profile

32
cited by 32 later decisions
1
states following
November 2016
most recently cited

32 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably Nethery v. State (1985), Giesberg v. State (1998)

32 state decisions

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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 Dyson v. State · Booth v. State · Rodriquez v. State · Dominguez v. State · Barree 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “(b) The use of force against another is not justified: [[Image here]] (2) to resist an arrest or search that the actor knows is being made by a peace officer, ... even though the arrest or search is unlawful, unless the resistance is justified under Subsection (c) of this section; [[Image here]] (c) The use of force to resist an arrest or search is justified: (1) if, before the actor offers any resistance, the peace officer ... uses or attempts to use greater force than necessary to make the arrest or search; and (2) when and to the degree the actor reasonably believes the force is immediately necessary to protect himself against the peace officer’s ... use or attempted use of greater force than necessary.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Johnson v. State · Crispin v. State
  2. “`The issue before this Court is whether, if the testimony is believed, a case of self-defense has been made.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Johnson 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.