State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 10 state decisions

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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The motion court erred in denying Appellant’s motion for postconviction relief, because Appellant’s guilty plea was not voluntary, knowing, and intelligent, in violation of Rule 24.02(e) and Appellant’s rights under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution and Article I section 10 of the Missouri Constitution, in that the record of the guilty plea proceeding did not establish a sufficient factual basis for Appellant’s guilty plea, in that no evidence was presented showing that Appellant sold cocaine, a controlled substance under section 195.211 as alleged in the information rather the evidence presented at the plea hearing was that the substance was ‘rock cocaine’ or ‘cocaine base’ which is distinct from cocaine although it is also a controlled substance under section 195.017.4(l)(d) RSMo Supp.1989.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hart v. State

2. ““A person commits the crime of trafficking drugs in the second degree if ... he possesses or has under his control, purchases or attempts to purchase, or brings into this state more than two grams of a mixture or substance ... which contains cocaine base_””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Mays