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← 71 SW3D 138 - Smulls v. State

Smulls v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2002

Citation profile

22
cited by 22 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
2
states following
August 2017
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 20 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Batson v. Kentucky · Berger v. United States · Wainwright v. Witt · Swain v. State of Alabama · Frye v. United States

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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Counsel is not ineffective for failing to shop around for additional experts.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
  2. “Counsel cannot be ineffective for failing to raise non-meritorious claims”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
    e.g. In Re Irs

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.