State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably State v. Bland (1997), Jenkins v. State (1998)
2 federal appellate · 55 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 Chapman v. Sullivan County
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] statutory definition of the term `deficits in adaptive behavior' would aid both the trial court and appellate review,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. COLEMEN v. State“universally accepted definition used in the field.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. COLEMEN v. State
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.