Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 1979 · most notably 42 Ala. App. 314 - Douglas v. State (1963), 34 Ala. App. 610 - Stovall v. State (1949)
26 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 Carter v. Chambers · Meredith v. State · Allen v. State · Moore v. State · Ross v. Ross
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The charge “is not based upon the relative reasonableness of the two constructions. The testimony in support of the construction favorable to the accused may be weak, and yet .not so weak as to render the construction unreasonable. It may be stronger in support of the construction unfavorable to the accused. Besides, the jurors are the sole judges of what construction shall be placed upon the testimony, and of what inferences shall be drawn therefrom. In consideration of the whole evidence, they may conclude that the unfavorable construction is proper. The charge instructing the jury that they must put upon any part of the testimony a construction favorable to defendant, if reasonable, invades their province, and is calculated to mislead them."”
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.