United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
112 F.2d 83 · 1940
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently August 2013 · most notably United States v. Werner (1980), United States v. Antonelli Fireworks Co. (1946)
36 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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. § 402
Relies on McElroy v. United States · Gunn v. United States · Jaybird Mining Co. v. Weir · United States v. Lotsch · Davis v. United States
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[J]uries are apt to regard with a more jaundiced eye a person charged with two crimes than a person charged with one. But Congress has authorized consolidation in the belief that public considerations of economy and speed outweigh possible unfairness to the accused.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“sheltered from the immigration authorities and shielded from observation to prevent their discovery as aliens.”
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.