Smith v. Cook’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
1 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably State v. Clark (2011), Monson v. Carver (1996)
1 district · 27 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 Gagnon v. Scarpelli · 67 Cal. 2d 343 - In re Griffin · Scharf v. BMG Corp. · Berry by and Through Berry v. Beech Aircraft · Condemarin v. University Hospital
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(10)(a) Upon completion without violation of 18 months probation in felony ... eases, ... the offender shall be terminated from sentence, unless the person is earlier terminated by the court. (b) The Department of Corrections shall notify the sentencing court in writing 30 days in advance in all cases where termination of supervision will occur by law. The notification shall include a probation progress report.... (c) At any time prior to the termination of probation the court may, after a hearing with proper notice, upon its own motion or the motion of the prosecutor, extend probation for good cause shown, for one additional term of 18 months....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Rawlings“Defendants would be left in a perpetual state of limbo; although their probation would appear to have terminated, ... defendants would actually be subject to a continued term of fictional supervision. This indefinite probationary term could theoretically be revoked many years after the original imposition and suspension of sentence_ This construction would obviate the certainty and regularity created by the statute and ignore the plain meaning of the word “terminate.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Grate“Defendants would be left in a perpetual state of limbo;, although their probation would appear to have been terminated, usually by entry of an order to that effect, defendants would actually be subject to a continued term of fictional supervision_ Decades could pass and then, based upon the discovery of a probation violation which had occurred during the statutory period, a court could revoke a term of probation thought to have been terminated long ago.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Call
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.