People v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently September 2018
7 federal appellate · 3 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.
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Logically, a defendant cannot act with a specified purpose unless an intent is formed to carry out that purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. D.H. v. City of N.Y.“created a Temporary State Commission whose purpose was to revise and simplify the existing Penal Law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“from the person or in the presence of another”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.