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.
“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 passagee.g. Davis v. State“contains the elements of the offense charged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Mondor
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.