State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably In re Disqualification of Fuerst (2012), 130 Ohio App. 3d 505 - Pollock v. Brigano (1998)
49 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.
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A paper purporting to be an affidavit, but not to have been sworn to before an officer, is not an affidavit.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“cannot be considered an affidavit filed pursuant to R.C. 2701.03.”
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.