Smith v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
151 U.S. 50 · 1894
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2021 · most notably Sparf v. United States (1895), United States of America v. Ricco Devon Prentiss (2001)
24 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 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 Holder v. United States · Pleasants v. Fant · Elk v. Wilkins · Commissioners of Marion County v. Clark · Moore 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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]hat [the victim] was a white man and not an Indian was a fact which the government was bound to establish.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a fact which the government was bound to establish . . . . [I]f [the government] failed to introduce any evidence upon that point, [the] defendant was entitled to an instruction [that the court had no jurisdiction].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the undisputed testimony did not also show [the murder victim] to have been an Indian”
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.