Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 2016
6 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 I.R. v. State · In the Interest of B.B. v. State · Ritchie v. State · 675 So. 2d 648 - Lunn v. State · Fernandez 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is within the province of the finder of fact `to rely upon the testimony found by it to be worthy of belief and to reject such testimony found by it to be untrue'”
2 later decisions 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.