United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
103 F.3d 531 · 1996
Citation profile
94 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 125 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably United States v. White (2005), United States v. Binford (1997)
94 federal appellate · 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. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Anders v. California · Bailey v. United States · United States v. DiFrancesco · McNamara v. County of San Diego Department of Social Services · Oneida Motor Freight, Inc. v. United Jersey
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 125 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When there is an alteration in the components of a sentence, the entire sentence is altered. If the alteration contains within itself potential for permeating the whole sentence, the entire sentence can be revisited.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Under the sentencing package concept, when a defendant raises a sentencing issue, he attacks the bottom line.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'in order to effectuate the original sentencing intent.”
4 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.