State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1,701 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,711 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Madrigal (2000), State v. Treesh (2001)
3 federal appellate · 1,701 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 Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · State v. Thompkins · State v. Jenks · Gregg v. Georgia
Cited together with State v. Thompkins · State v. Jenks · 20 Ohio App. 3d 172 - State v. Martin · Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia
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 1,711 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he relevant inquiry is whether, after viewing the evidence in a light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime proven beyond a reasonable doubt.”
97 later decisions quote this exact passage“concerns the inclination of the greater amount of credible evidence, offered in a trial, to support one side of the issue rather than the other.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage“Sufficiency of the evidence is the standard applied to determine whether the case may go to the jury or whether the evidence is legally sufficient as a matter of law to support the jury verdict.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Mattox · State v. Bandy
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.