Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
83 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably 954 So. 2d 968 - Ross v. State (2007), 805 So. 2d 452 - Simmons v. State (2001)
83 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 Illinois v. Gates · Batson v. Kentucky · Jones v. Barnes · Woodson v. North Carolina · Enmund v. Florida
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We believe that the fact that our capital murder statute lists and defines to some degree the possible aggravating circumstances surely refutes the appellant's contention that he had inadequate notice. Anytime an individual is charged with murder, he is put on notice that the death penalty may result. And, our death penalty statute clearly states the only aggravating circumstances which may be relied upon by the prosecution in seeking the ultimate punishment.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Holland v. State · Lynch v. State“A trial judge will not be found in error on a matter not presented to him for decision.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. McCoy v. State · Glasper v. State“We, the jury, unanimously find from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that the following facts existed at the time of the commission of the Capital Murder. 1. That the defendant actually killed Edwina Marter. Next, we the jury, unanimously find that the aggravating circumstances of: 1. Richard Jordan committed the Capital Murder while engaged in the crime of Kidnapping Edwina Marter. 2. Richard Jordan committed the Capital Murder for pecuniary gain. 3. Richard Jordan committed a Capital offense which was especially heinous, atrocious & cruel & whether the murder was conscienceless & pitiless. In support of this circumstance the State claims that Edwina Marter was murdered in execution style & that she was subjected to extreme mental torture caused by her abduction from the home wherein she was forced to abandon her unattended three year old child & removed to a wooded area at which time she was shot in the back of the head by Jordan. exist beyond a reasonable doubt & are sufficient to us to impose the death penalty and that there are insufficient mitigating circumstances to out weigh the aggravating circumstances and we further find unanimously that the defendant should suffer death.”
2 later decisions 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.