Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
March 2013
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Foss v. Foss · In re Rivera · Timberlake v. State · Dill v. State · Sales v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“[elrrors in the giving or refusing of instructions are harmless where a conviction is clearly sustained by the evidence and the jury could not properly have found otherwise. An instruction error will result in reversal when the reviewing court cannot say with complete confidence that a reasonable jury would have rendered a guilty verdict had the instruction not been given.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stoltmann v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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