State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
127 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 127 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably 154 Wash. 2d 118 - State v. Hughes (2005), 147 Wash. 2d 330 - State v. Brown (2002)
127 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 Sullivan v. Louisiana · 88 Wash. 2d 221 - State v. Wanrow · 105 Wash. 2d 1 - State v. Bergeron · United States v. David · 125 Wash. 2d 707 - State v. Byrd
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 127 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“by which the jury measures the evidence to determine guilt or innocence.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Nelson · State v. Pope“); State v. Byrd, 125 Wash.2d 707, 713-14 , 887 P.2d 396 (1995) (”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“It cannot be said that a defendant has had a fair trial if the jury must guess at the meaning of an essential element of a crime or if the jury might assume that an essential element need not be proved.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Stein · State v. Jones
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.