Smith v. Illinois

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the right of cross-examination is included in the right of an accused in a criminal case to confront the witnesses against him
• referring to denial of cross-examination as \constitutional error of the first magnitude\
• referring to denial of cross‐examination as “constitutional error of the first magnitude”
• defense counsel not allowed to ask witness for name and address even though witness admitted that the name he first gave was false
• questions tending to endanger personal safety of a witness go beyond proper bounds of cross-examination
• Sixth Amendment requires that name and address of principal prosecution witness be revealed so that defendant can conduct effective cross-examination

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

563 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• United States v. Bagley
  Supreme Court· 1985-07-02· cited 8,539×
• Delaware v. Van Arsdall
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-07· cited 7,102×
• United States v. Cronic
  Supreme Court· 1984-05-14· cited 6,497×
• Davis v. Alaska
  Supreme Court· 1974-02-27· cited 5,953×
• California v. Green
  Supreme Court· 1970-06-23· cited 3,363×
• Pennsylvania v. Ritchie
  Supreme Court· 1987-02-24· cited 2,521×
• Branzburg v. Hayes
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 2,202×
• Dutton v. Evans
  Supreme Court· 1970-12-15· cited 1,926×
• Delaware v. Fensterer
  Supreme Court· 1985-11-04· cited 1,786×
• Gravel v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 778×
• People v. Kliner
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1998-12-03· cited 564×
• Carroll v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-01-24· cited 415×
• United States v. Theodore J. Isaacs and Otto Kerner, Jr.
  Seventh Circuit· 1974-03-28· cited 355×
• State v. Ryan
  Washington Supreme Court· 1984-11-26· cited 344×
• Timberlake v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-09-23· cited 307×
• United States v. Varelli
  Seventh Circuit· 1969-02-11· cited 268×
• United States v. Shukri Baker
  Fifth Circuit· 2011-12-07· cited 263×
• People v. Ramos
  California Supreme Court· 1997-07-07· cited 263×
• Charles William Proffitt v. Louie L. Wainwright, Secretary, Florida Department of Offender Rehabilitation
  Eleventh Circuit· 1982-09-17· cited 259×
• United States v. Charles T. Bennett, Wilbert Haywood, Elmer Jessup, Henry Stanton and Farris Thomas
  Second Circuit· 1969-02-26· cited 244×

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Pointer v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1965-04-05· cited 4,761×
• Roviaro v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1957-03-25· cited 3,599×
• McCray v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1967-04-24· cited 1,521×
• Alford v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1931-02-24· cited 1,352×
• Poe v. Ullman
  Supreme Court· 1961-10-09· cited 1,202×
• Brookhart v. Janis
  Supreme Court· 1966-04-18· cited 1,130×
• Rescue Army v. Municipal Court of Los Angeles
  Supreme Court· 1947-06-09· cited 667×
• United States v. John Cardillo, Lawrence Harris, Ralph Kaminsky, John Knapp, Louis Margolis, and Louis Piselli
  Second Circuit· 1963-04-24· cited 261×
• People v. Smith
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1966-05-09· cited 5×
• People v. Smith
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1966-03-18· cited 3×