Smith v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
128 F.2d 990 · 1942
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 2004
5 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 16 U.S.C. § 703 (Arctic Tundra Habitat Emergency Conservation Act)
Relies on District of Columbia v. Clawans · Callan v. Wilson · Schick 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . for the reason that Congress has not conferred upon the district courts jurisdiction to try petty criminal offenses without a jury.”
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.