State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 2005
15 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 State v. Parton · State v. Johnson · State v. Gibson · State v. Sipes · State v. Rogers
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The trial court erred in overruling [defendant’s] motion for judgment of acquittal at the close of all the evidence and in submitting the case to the jury on the charge of sodomy, because the evidence was not sufficiently substantial to support [the] conviction in that [R — ], the only witness to the alleged act, gave testimony at trial that was highly contradictory when viewed against numerous statements previously made by the witness and accordingly required corroboration which must also be substantial evidence and the only such corroborating evidence was the testimony of two doctors, Drs. Grace and Beaton, that examined [R — ], whose findings, by their own admission, were inconclusive.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Burch
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.