Smith v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2017
1 federal appellate · 11 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 Lockett v. Ohio · Eddings v. Oklahoma · Penry v. Lynaugh · California v. Brown · Lankford v. Idaho
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Six days’ notice is inadequate notice to prepare for the guilt phase of a capital trial.... In the instant case the inadequate notice led to inadequate preparation for the penalty phase of the trial. It has long been held in Kentucky that the constitutional right to be represented by counsel includes the right to have reasonable time and opportunity for preparation. Davis v. Commonwealth, 310 Ky. 360 , 220 S.W.2d 844 (1949). If defense counsel is not given adequate time in which to prepare for the penalty phase of a capital trial, the adversarial system has most certainly malfunctioned.”
1 later decision 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.