State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
June 2013
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Ellison · State v. Banner · United States v. Greschner · Frye v. State · State v. Sessions
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Proof of guilty knowledge, like proof of intent, is usually cireamstantial.... Evidence of motive is generally relevant cireuam-stantial evidence of state of mind.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Maughan
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.