Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
37
cited by 37 later decisions
1
states following
September 2017
most recently cited
37 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Joyner v. State · Cook v. State · Williams v. State · Hauk v. State · McIntyre 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where the decision is clearly against the logic and effect of the facts and circumstances.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. N.W. v. State · Morell v. State“Evidence is relevant when it has 'any tendency to make the existence of any fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action more probable or less probable than it would be without the evidence?”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pitts v. State“evidence which tends to show that someone else committed the crime logically makes it less probable that the defendant committed the crime, and thus meets the definition of Rule 401.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pitts v. State
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.