State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently May 2018
17 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 State v. McMillin · State v. Hornbuckle · State v. Clemmons · State v. Wood · State v. Malone
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n all instances, [the party seeking to invoke attorney-client privilege] must show (1) the existence of an attorney-client relationship at the time of the interaction or communication , and (2) that such relationship existed with regard to the subject matter of the communication or incident.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hooper“the trial court ha[s] no basis for deciding”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hooper
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.