Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently November 1992 · most notably Simmons v. State (1942), State v. Gray (1983)
26 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 Commonwealth v. Mixer · Mills v. State · Thompson v. State · Taylor v. State · Williams v. Richardson
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"While all common-law crimes consist of two elements the criminal act or omission, and the mental element, commonly called criminal intent, it is within the power of the Legislature to dispense with the necessity for a criminal intent, and to punish particular acts without regard to the mental attitude of the doer."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Wershow“any malpractice in office not otherwise especially provided for”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ex Parte Amos
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.