United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
13 F.3d 380 · 1993
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably United States v. Parker (1994), State v. Sanseverino (2008)
26 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 860 (§ 419 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 2106
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Schmuck v. United States · Wrenn v. Weinberger · Allison v. United States · United States v. Holland
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]ny outdoor facility ... intended for recreation, open to the public, and with any portion thereof containing three or more separate apparatus intended for the recreation of children. ...”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“constitutes an 'offense' which has as an element of proof that the distribution occurred within 1,000 feet of a protected place”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Any person who violates section 841(a)(1) ... by distributing, possessing with intent to distribute, or manufacturing a controlled substance in or on, or within one thousand feet of, the real property comprising ... a playground ... [is] subject to (1) twice the maximum punishment authorized by section 841(b) of this title; and (2) at least twice any term of supervised release authorized by section 841(b) of this title for a first offense....”
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.