Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
13
cited by 13 later decisions
1
states following
December 2010
most recently cited
13 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 719 So. 2d 180 - Dudley v. State · 607 So. 2d 1197 - Griffin v. State · Langston v. State · 818 So. 2d 1186 - Turner v. State · 799 So. 2d 870 - Brown 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]nly in those cases where the verdict is so contrary to the overwhelming weight of the evidence that to allow it to stand would sanction an unconscionable injustice.”
4 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.