Smallwood v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably Dion Smallwood v. Gary Gibson Attorney General of the State of Oklahoma - (1999), Hooks v. Workman (2012)
5 federal appellate · 40 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 American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States · Zant v. Stephens · National Union Fire Insurance v. Helfand · Skipper v. South Carolina · Ross v. Oklahoma
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“After the jury have retired for deliberation, if there be a disagreement between them as to any part of the testimony or if they desire to be informed on a point of law arising in the cause, they must require the officer to conduct them into court. Upon their being brought into court, the information required must be given in the presence of, or after notice to the district attorney and the defendant or his counsel, or after they have been called.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. STEVENS v. STATE · Mollett v. State“photographs of murder victims can be probative in many respects.... They can show the nature, extent and location of wounds, establish the corpus delicti, corroborate testimony of medical examiners and expert witnesses and depict the crime seene.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[iJt is error for any party to try to define 'beyond a reasonable doubt' "); Smallwood v. State, 1995 OK CR 60, ¶ 51 , 907 P.2d 217, 231 ("[It is well settled that the term 'reasonable doubt' is self-explanatory and it is error for the trial court or prosecutor to attempt to define it for the jury”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.