Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently October 2020 · most notably State v. Jenks (1991), Romano v. State (1993)
1 federal appellate · 27 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 Beck v. State of Ohio · Burks v. State · Hays v. State · Rudd v. State · Application of Baggett
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether after reviewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the State, a rational trier of fact could have found the existence of the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bland v. State“of such a nature that a jury would naturally and necessarily construe them to be directed to the failure of the defendant to testify,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jackson v. State“inconsistent with any reasonable hypothesis other than the defendant's guilt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fritz 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.