Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably Cargle v. State (1995), Woodruff v. State (1993)
1 federal appellate · 28 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 Wainwright v. Witt · Caldwell v. Mississippi · Jurek v. Texas · Godfrey v. Georgia · Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Weintraub
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hat is essential is that the jury have before it all possible relevant information about the individual defendant whose fate it must determine.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“circumstance goes to the aspect of the need for protection of society from a defendant's probable future conduct. In this case, it is supported by the callousness with which Appellant committed the murders and his threats to kill in the future. The”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“This relevant information may include evidence from the crime itself, evidence of other crimes, admissions by the defendant of unadjudicated offenses, or any other relevant evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. FREDERICK v. STATE
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.