737 So. 2d 377 - Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
October 2008
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Gideon v. Wainwright · McClain v. State · 454 So. 2d 468 - Stringer v. State · 460 So. 2d 778 - May 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A criminal defendant assailing the voluntariness of his statement has a due process right to a reliable determination that the statement was in fact voluntarily given.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“fails to consider all that [his counsel] did throughout the course of his trial.”
1 later decision 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.