Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably Boykin v. State (1991), Grunsfeld v. State (1992)
25 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.
Relationships
Relies on Floyd v. State · Houlihan v. State · Powell v. State · Tamez v. State · Courtemanche 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For the purposes of this section, the jurisdiction of a court in which a sentence requiring confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections 1 is imposed shall continue for 180 days from the date the execution of the sentence actually begins. Before the expiration of 180 days from the date the execution of the sentence actually begins, the judge of the court that imposed such sentence may on his own motion, on the motion of the attorney representing the state, or on the written motion of the ■defendant, suspend further execution of the sentence and place the defendant on probation under the terms and conditions of this article, if in the opinion of the judge the defendant would not benefit from further incarceration and ... [emphasis added],”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Dean · State v. Dean“... When a statute is clear and unambiguous, this Court will not strain that plain meaning of the wording in order to give the statute a `desirable' reading.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Aguilar 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.