State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably State v. Montoya (2004), West Valley City v. Hutto (2000)
2 federal appellate · 31 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 Strickland v. Washington · White v. Illinois · Hebert v. Brown · State v. Templin · 76 Wash. 2d 398 - Johnston v. Ohls
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) that counsel's performance was so deficient as to fall below an objective standard of reasonableness and (2) that but for counsel's deficient performance there is a reasonable probability that the outcome of the trial would have been different.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lee · State v. Vigil“Board is in a far better position than a court to monitor a defendant's subsequent behavior and possible progress toward rehabilitation while in prison and to adjust the maximum sentence accordingly.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Valdez · State v. Lebeau“(1) A court shall determine, if a defendant has been adjudged guilty of more than one felony offense, whether to impose concurrent or consecutive sentences for the offenses [[Image here]] (2) A court shall consider the gravity and circumstances of the offenses and the history, character, and rehabilitative needs of the defendant in determining whether to impose consecutive sentences. (3) A court may impose consecutive sentences for offenses arising out of a single criminal episode as defined in Section 76-1-401.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Montoya · State v. Lebeau
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.