United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
131 F.3d 1392 · 1997
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably United States v. Heckard (2001), United States v. Price (2001)
43 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 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. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 3742 · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · United States v. Olano · Payton v. New York · Johnson v. United States · Alderman 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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'attribute to a defendant weapons possessed by his codefendants if the possession of weapons was known to the defendant or reasonably foreseeable by him.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any participant who is less culpable than most other participants, but whose role could not be described as minimal.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is clearly improbable that the weapon was connected with the offense.”
6 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.