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← 75 FLA 468 - Smith v. State

Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1918

Citation profile

79
cited by 79 later decisions
8
states following
May 2016
most recently cited

6 federal appellate · 65 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably State v. Henderson (1979), Ellis v. State (1930)

6 federal appellate · 65 state decisions

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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 Commonwealth v. Lockwood · Mills v. State · State ex rel. Owens v. Barnes · Barber v. State · O'Brien 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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “This court has so often expressed the opinion that the word "conviction" includes the judgment of the court, as well as a plea or verdict of guilty, that such definition of the word as used in the statute or plea invoked to describe the effect of a former conviction in a subsequent cause may be said to be firmly established.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 450 So. 2d 1126 - Roberts v. State
  2. ““And that the said J. J. Smith had theretofore, prior to said sale, pleaded guilty in the county judge’s court of Jackson county, Fla., of the like offense, wherefore the grand jurors aforesaid do say and present that the said J. J. Smith is a common liquor dealer.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Schooley v. United States
  3. “The meaning of the word `convicted' as used in the statute ... means the adjudication by the court of the defendant's guilt.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 772 So. 2d 1209 - State v. McFadden

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.