Smylie v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
1 district · 157 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 162 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably State v. Foster (2006), State v. Natale (2005)
1 district · 157 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 United States v. Booker · Blakely v. Washington · Gardner v. State · Abercrombie v. State · Brady 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 162 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) [the same] arrangement of fixed presumptive terms, modified to require jury findings on facts in aggravation; or (2) a system in which there is no stated 'fixed term' (or at least none that has legally binding effect) in which judges would impose sentences without a jury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.