State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 126 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 129 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably State v. Varela (1999), Smith V. Secretary of New Mexico Department of Corrections (1995)
3 federal appellate · 126 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · State v. Bell · McGeehan v. Bunch · Ott v. Keller · Walton v. State ex rel. Road Commission
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 129 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Evidence of a person’s character or a trait of his character is not admissible for the purpose of proving that he acted in conformity therewith on a particular occasion, except: (2) Character of victim. Evidence of a pertinent trait of character of the victim of the crime offered by an accused ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Montoya“[a] general claim of denial of a fair trial cannot provide a basis for relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lopez
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.