In Re David L Smith’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 115 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably In Re Smith (1999), Rozier Sharp National Labor Relations Board v. Webco Industries Inc (2000)
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 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 Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · National Union Fire Insurance v. Helfand · Maryland v. Craig · United States v. Spedalieri · Sammiline Co. v. Woods
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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e are bound by the precedent of prior panels absent en banc reconsideration or a superseding contrary decision by the Supreme Court.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.