State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently December 2018
17 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 Ohio v. Roberts · Chambers v. Mississippi · Douglas v. Alabama · Barber v. Page · Boatmen's National Bank of St. Louis v. Carver
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“state of mind which exists when the circumstances indicate that the offender actively desired the prescribed criminal consequences to follow his act or failure to act.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although the reference to the defendant’s killing of a second wife was highly significant and incriminating, inadmissible information, the |⅞1 record clearly reflects that juror Bertrand was sufficiently rehabilitated by the trial court. In fact, Mr. Bertrand told the court he took the co-worker’s statements with a grain of salt. Mr. Bertrand further added that the comments would not enter into his determinations of guilt or innocence of the defendant or affect any other decision he may be required to make in this case. In addition, Mr. Bertrand stated that he could decide the case strictly on the evidence presented to him in the courtroom.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“La.Code Evid. art. 607 provides that a defendant may attack the credibility of a witness through the use of extrinsic evidence which contradicts the witness' testimony, provided that a proper foundation is laid for such extrinsic evidence pursuant to La.Code Evid. art. 613. La.Code Evid. art. 613 states that extrinsic evidence is admissible if the defense has fairly directed the witness' attention to the statements, and the witness has been given the opportunity to admit the fact and failed to do so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.