Smith v. People’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 2020
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 Nogueras v. Puerto Rico International Airlines, Inc. · People v. Terry · People v. Bramlett · People v. Czajkowski · Little v. Arkansas
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) A person commits the crime of assault in the second degree if: (a) With intent to cause serious bodily injury to another person, he does cause such injury to any person; ....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) A person commits the crime of assault in the second degree if: [[Image here]] (b) With intent to cause bodily injury to another person, he causes or attempts to cause such injury to any person by means of a deadly weapon; [[Image here]] (2)(b) If assault in the second degree is committed without [heat of passion], it is a class ⅛ felony. (e) If a defendant is convicted of assault in the second degree pursuant to parar graph (a), (b), (c), (d), or (g) of subsection (1) of this section, the court shall sentence the defendant in accordance with the provisions of section 16-11-309, C.R.S.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Nguyen“when an offender who acts with a less culpable intent may receive a greater penalty than the offender who acts with a greater culpable intent, such a statutory scheme is `unreasonably structured' and `constitutionally infirm,' even though the two offenses result in the same harm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Nguyen
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.