Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
April 2004
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Kansas v. Hendricks · Kansas v. Crane · Care & Treatment of Thomas v. State · In Re Marriage of Eikermann · State ex rel. FAG Bearings Corp. v. Perigo
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.
“As used in the instruction, "mental abnormality" means a congenital or acquired condition affecting the emotional or volitional capacity that predisposes the person to commit sexually violent offenses in a degree that causes the individual serious difficulty in controlling his behavior.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.