State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently December 2011 · most notably State v. Matthews (1990), State v. Pike (1998)
52 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Adamo Wrecking Co. v. United States · State v. Cabbage · State v. Grace · Liakas v. State
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is common knowledge the penal institutions of this State are filled to capacity with inmates who have committed more serious offenses than the defendant. And, as a result of the mandate issued by the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee regarding the population of our penal institutions, there are literally hundreds, perhaps thousands, of convicted felons confined in local jails awaiting transportation to a Department of Correction facility when space permits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Huff“1. the evidence, if any, received at the trial and the sentencing hearing; 2. the presentenee report; 3. the principles of sentencing and arguments as to sentencing alternatives; 4. the nature and characteristics of the criminal conduct involved; 5. any statutory mitigating or enhancement factors; 6. any statement • that the defendant made on his own behalf; and 7. the potential or lack of potential for rehabilitation or treatment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hallock
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.