State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2019
19 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 Graves v. United States · Dothard v. Rawlinson · United States v. Mahone · State v. Petree · United States v. Young
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A robbery is committed when (a) personal property is taken from another person’s possession, or is in the immediate presence of such other person at the time it is taken, (b) the property is taken contrary to the will of such other person, (c) the taking is accomplished by means of force or fear, (d) the taking is unlawful, and (e) the taking is intentional.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Germonto“the jury [must] find that [the] defendant solicited, requested, commanded, encouraged, or intentionally aided another person ... to engage in the robbery; [the] defendant did so intentionally and knowingly; and a deadly weapon ... was used in the commission of the crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A person commits theft if he obtains or exercises unauthorized control over the property of another with a purpose to deprive him thereof.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.