986 So. 2d 290 - Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
89 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably 989 So. 2d 320 - Chamberlin v. State (2008), Neal v. State (2009)
89 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 Chapman v. State of California · Crawford v. Washington · Bruton v. United States · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Ohio v. Roberts
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]tatements are nontestimonial when made in the course of police interrogation under circumstances objectively indicating that the primary purpose of the interrogation is to enable police assistance to meet an ongoing emergency. They are testimonial when the circumstances objectively indicate that there is no such ongoing emergency, and that the primary purpose of the interrogation is to establish or prove past events potentially relevant to later criminal prosecution.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“correcting obvious instances of injustice or misapplied law.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“This Court reviews the trial court's decision to admit or exclude evidence under an abuse of discretion standard of review.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.