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Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2018

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
June 2019
most recently cited

3 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Romer v. State · Lupoe v. State · Moss 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Decisions about what particular questions to ask on cross-examination are quintessential trial strategy and will rarely constitute ineffective assistance of counsel. In particular, whether to impeach prosecution witnesses and how to do so are tactical decisions.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “contains the elements of the offense charged.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.