83 Okla. Crim. 209 - Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently November 2023
20 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 Lyons v. State of Oklahoma · People v. Hobbs · People v. Seaman · 77 Okla. Crim. 197 - Lyons v. State · Clark v. People
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is the general rule * * * that * * * evidence of other crimes, either prior or subsequent to the alleged offense, is inadmissible. “To the general rule that the admission in evidence of other crimes, either prior or subsequent to the alleged offense is inadmissible, there are, liOAvever, certain, exceptions which are as well recognized as the rule itself, as, where the evidence tends directly or fairly to prove guilt of the crime charged, or to connect one with it, or Avhere the crime charged and other offense are closely related or connected; or where such testimony is for the purpose of showing that it was a part of a system or common scheme or plan; or when proof of a separate offense is explanatory of the motive or intent of the offender in the commission of the offense charged.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Every woman who solicits of any person any medicine, drug, or substance whatever, and takes the same, or who submits to any operation, or to the use of any means whatever, with intent thereby to procure a miscarriage, unless the same is necessary to preserve her life, is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one (1) year, or by fine not exceeding One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or by both.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““As a general rule, statements and declarations by the person injured by the crime are not admissible unless a part of the res gestae, or, within the exception as to dying declarations, unless introduced for impeachment purposes or to show an admission by accused when they were made in his presence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Porter 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.