Smith v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• interpreting “should,” in an instruction to the jury concerning the weight to be placed on evidence submitted at trial, as an “imperative” rather than “permissive” word

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Loyd v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1980-01-11· cited 405×
• Loza v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1975-04-03· cited 48×
• Hogue v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1910-01-17· cited 36×
• Manhattan-Dickman Construction Co. v. Shawler
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1976-11-18· cited 28×
• United States v. Orval W. Anderson
  Seventh Circuit· 1986-07-29· cited 26×
• Nix v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1960-04-19· cited 24×
• Myers v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1922-12-22· cited 24×
• Bohan v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1923-10-31· cited 22×
• Frank v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 1930-07-07· cited 20×
• Johnston v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1958-12-23· cited 19×
• State v. Brown
  Utah Supreme Court· 1916-07-13· cited 6×
• White v. New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1895-12-10· cited 5×
• Howell v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1966-01-18· cited 1×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Deal v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1895-02-26· cited 139×
• Newport v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1895-02-21· cited 41×
• Koerner v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1884-10-28· cited 38×
• Lynch v. Bates
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1894-11-16· cited 24×
• Floyd v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1867-06-15· cited 8×
• Guetig v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1878-11-15· cited 6×