United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
10 F.3d 724 · 1993
Citation profile
100 federal appellate · 11 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 137 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2019 · most notably Shepard v. United States (2005), United States v. Galloway (1995)
100 federal appellate · 11 district · 3 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 16 · 18 U.S.C. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 3742 · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 28 U.S.C. § 994
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Taylor v. United States · Stinson v. United States · Brewster v. Derwinski · Bowsher v. Merck & Co.
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 137 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any offense under federal or state law punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year that--(i) has as an element the use, attempted use or threatened use of physical force against the person of another.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A defendant is a career offender if (1) the defendant was at least eighteen years old at the time of the instant offense, (2) the instant offense of conviction is a felony that is either a crime of violence or a controlled substance offense, and (3) the defendant has at least two prior felony convictions of either a crime of violence or a controlled substance offense.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A burglary would be covered under [the definition of crime of violence in 18 U.S.C.] § 16(b)... because burglary, by its nature, involves a substantial risk that the burglar will use force against a victim in completing the crime.”
5 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.