Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 2019
14 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 Illinois v. Allen · Kentucky v. Stincer · Morris v. Gressette · Leppek v. State · Saldana v. State
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Sixth Amendment and the due process clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution guarantee an accused the right to be present during every stage of the criminal proceeding that is critical to its outcome if his presence would contribute to the fairness of the procedure.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wall v. State“Appellant’s counsel properly and adequately represents him as required and guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution and Article I, Section 10 of the Wyoming Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Denmon v. State“must be able to declare its belief that the error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wall 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.