Smith v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
106 F.2d 726 · 1939
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 2017
12 federal appellate · 1 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 Mattox v. United States · Donnelly v. United States · Funk v. United States · Hines v. Commonwealth · People v. Lewandowski
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * Apart from the fact, * * *, that no sufficient showing was made that the wife was not available as a witness, the rule in the federal courts clearly excludes such extrajudicial declarations. Donnelly v. United States, 228 U.S. 243 , 272-277, 33 S.Ct. 449 , 57 L.Ed. 820 * * * [Emphasis supplied.] Id. at 727.”
1 later decision 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.