Smith v. State

How courts have described this case

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• holding that expert testimony in support of a justification defense based on battered spouse syndrome would not be an improper opinion on an “ultimate fact”
• holding that expert testimony in support of a justification defense based on battered spouse syndrome would not he an improper opinion on an “ultimate fact”
• holding the trial court erred by not allowing the defendant’s expert to describe the phenomenon of “wife battering” and give an opinion about whether defendant’s personality and behavior corresponded to that of other battered women the expert had studied
• holding the trial court erred by not allowing the defendant's expert to describe the phenomenon of \wife battering\ and give an opinion about whether defendant's personality and behavior corresponded to that of other battered women the expert had studied
• justification predicated upon repeated acts of prior aggression committed against the defendant by the actual victim
• justification predicated upon repeated acts of prior aggression committed against the defendant by the actual victim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Kelly
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1984-07-24· cited 515×
• May v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-11-07· cited 475×
• State v. Middleton
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1983-01-18· cited 320×
• State v. Koss
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1990-03-07· cited 220×
• State v. Allery
  Washington Supreme Court· 1984-05-17· cited 198×
• Ex Parte Haney
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1992-06-19· cited 178×
• Timothy Duane Arcoren v. United States
  Eighth Circuit· 1991-06-05· cited 159×
• Chandler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-07-03· cited 147×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-03-16· cited 146×
• Fleming v. Zant
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-12-01· cited 141×
• State v. Ciskie
  Washington Supreme Court· 1988-03-17· cited 137×
• Allison v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-03-17· cited 123×
• State v. Kelly
  Washington Supreme Court· 1984-06-28· cited 116×
• Jahnke v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1984-06-06· cited 105×
• Ford Motor Co. v. Stubblefield
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1984-06-13· cited 93×
• Maxwell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-03-19· cited 89×
• State v. Hennum
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1989-06-16· cited 83×
• Carr v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-03-10· cited 82×
• Palmer v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-04-06· cited 78×
• United States v. Earl Foster Boise
  Ninth Circuit· 1990-09-27· cited 76×

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Ibn-Tamas v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1979-10-15· cited 186×
• State v. Griffiths
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1980-04-03· cited 108×
• Lackey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-09-16· cited 80×
• State v. Dozier
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1979-06-07· cited 56×
• Stewart v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-06-25· cited 54×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-09-18· cited 46×
• King v. Browning
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-06-17· cited 43×
• State v. Baker
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1980-12-03· cited 39×
• Mars v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1926-10-15· cited 30×
• State v. Matthews
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1974-09-06· cited 21×
• Stamper v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-09-16· cited 19×
• People v. Powell
  New York County Courts· 1980-01-15· cited 14×
• Morrison v. Bradley
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1980-12-15· cited 7×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1980-10-31· cited 4×