Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Woods v. State (1998), Jackson v. State (2000)
52 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 Strickland v. Washington · Colorado v. Connelly · Mincey v. Arizona · Lockhart v. Fretwell · Kimmelman v. Morrison
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Cloercive police activity is a necessary predicate to the finding that a confession is not 'voluntary' within the meaning of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Faris v. State“Stated another way, a defendant's mental state is not enough to render a confession inadmissible in the absence of coercive police activity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Faris v. State“explain evidence, rather than exclude it, is a tactical decision within counsel's reasonable professional judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Terry 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.