State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 2018
8 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 119th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Cook v. State · Duron v. State · Ex Parte Watson
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a written instrument ... accuses someone of a crime with enough clarity and specificity to identify the penal statute under which the State intends to prosecute,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Matter of SJ“even if the instrument is otherwise defective.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Matter of SJ
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.