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People v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

2003

Citation profile

16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
November 2020
most recently cited

16 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 2020

16 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 Old Chief v. United States · The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellee/Cross-Appellant v. Frank D. RODRIGUEZ, Defendant-Appellant/Cross-Appellee. · Wilson v. People · People v. Arguello · People v. Albo

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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[A] trial court may refuse to give a defendant's theory of the case instruction that misstates the law. ...”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. People v. O'NEAL · People v. Bondurant
  2. “Here, even if we assume that admitting evidence of the nature of defendant's prior convictions was error under Old Chief v. United States , 519 U.S. 172 , 117 S.Ct. 644 , 136 L.Ed.2d 574 (1997), we conclude the error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt because of the overwhelming evidence of defendant's guilt, including his own testimony.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. People v. Buell
  3. “A trial court's determination that a defendant waived the constitution al right to counsel will be upheld if the record affirmatively establishes that the defendant knowingly and intelligently waived that right.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. People v. Brewster

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.