835 So. 2d 927 - Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
22
cited by 22 later decisions
1
states following
January 2018
most recently cited
22 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Batson v. Kentucky · California v. Trombetta · McClain v. State · 503 So. 2d 803 - Wetz v. State · 451 So. 2d 743 - Neal 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if all instructions taken as a whole fairly, but not necessarily perfectly, announce the applicable rules of law, no error results.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Grant v. State · Kendrick v. State“Jury instructions are to be read together and taken as a whole with no one instruction taken out of context.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“incorrectly states the law, is covered fairly elsewhere in the instructions, or is without foundation in the evidence.”
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.