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.

• holding that “[b]ecause [the witness]’s testimony was essential to the State’s case . . . we cannot conclude that this restriction on exploring [the witness]’s bias was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt”
• holding admissible statements by a police officer to a defendant where the statements regarding others’ opinions were intended to provoke a response, even without an admonishment to the jury regarding the purpose of the statements
• rejecting the State's argument that during an interrogation police questions and comments designed to elicit responses from the defendant constituted nonhearsay
• “[V]iolations of the right to cross- examine are subject to harmless-error analysis.”
• “[V]iolations of the right to cross-examine are subject to harmless-error analysis.”
• discussing the importance of cross-examination for demonstrating a witness’s bias

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Daniel Lee Pierce v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2015-05-12· cited 143×
• Kubsch v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2003-03-14· cited 129×
• Wilkes v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2009-12-10· cited 99×
• Washington v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2004-05-20· cited 95×
• Marcum v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2000-03-29· cited 90×
• McCarthy v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2001-06-28· cited 72×
• West v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2001-09-24· cited 68×
• Wenzel Williams v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2015-10-26· cited 66×
• Alton Neville v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2012-10-19· cited 46×
• Tolliver v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2010-03-18· cited 33×
• Howard v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2006-09-06· cited 30×
• Ortiz v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2001-02-01· cited 28×
• Collins v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2005-10-11· cited 26×
• Pitman v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2001-05-03· cited 26×
• Nelson v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2003-07-31· cited 26×
• Bostick v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2002-08-19· cited 25×
• Stewart v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2001-08-29· cited 25×
• Fosha v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2001-05-23· cited 24×
• Lampkins v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2002-11-22· cited 20×
• Reginald Harris v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2017-06-22· cited 20×

Cites

21 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Chapman v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
• Delaware v. Van Arsdall
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-07· cited 7,102×
• Drollinger v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1980-08-26· cited 122×
• Thompson v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1997-12-23· cited 107×
• Willey v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1999-06-17· cited 85×
• Griffin v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1999-10-01· cited 84×
• Strong v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1989-05-22· cited 59×
• Humphrey v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1997-05-29· cited 53×
• Angleton v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1997-10-09· cited 51×
• United States v. Vincent M. Portalla, A/K/A Vincent Marino
  First Circuit· 1993-02-08· cited 45×
• Jarrett v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1986-10-21· cited 39×
• Bufkin v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1998-10-29· cited 31×
• Pigg v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1992-11-23· cited 27×
• Thornton v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1999-06-09· cited 23×
• Becker v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1998-05-18· cited 22×
• Grund v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1996-08-07· cited 21×
• Pfefferkorn v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1980-12-30· cited 21×
• Levi v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1994-01-31· cited 15×
• McQuay v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1991-02-14· cited 15×
• Griffin v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1998-02-10· cited 7×