Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably Ladd v. State (1999), Prystash v. State (1999)
2 federal appellate · 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 Wainwright v. Witt · Penry v. Lynaugh · Pelaes v. United States · Morgan v. Illinois · Yagow v. United States
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]ias against the law is refusal to consider or apply the relevant law. It exists when a venireperson's beliefs or opinions `would prevent or substantially impair the performance of his duties as a juror in accordance with his instructions and oath'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sanchez v. State“While a trial court may hold a juror qualified who states that he can lay aside an opinion he has formed, no such discretion vests in the court with reference to a juror with a bias or prejudice against the parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Anson v. State“By failing to give this question at trial, the court received an incomplete verdict and thus was without authority to sentence appellant to death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Prystash 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.