Smith v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
157 F. 721 · 1907
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1985 · most notably United States v. James a Patten (1913), United States v. Morado (1972)
45 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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 Logan v. United States · Civil Rights Cases · 'The Ku-Klux Cases' Yarbrough · Osborne v. County of Adams · United States v. Carll
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same, or if two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured, they shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars, and imprisoned not ihore than ten years, and shall, moreover, be thereafter ineligible to any office, or place of honor, profit, or trust created by the Constitution or laws of the United States.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The effects and results of a conspiracy can be observed and proved, but rarely can one get a glimpse or make proof of the secret conferences which inaugurate it. For these manifest reasons proof of a criminal combination to do an unlawful act can rarely be made except by light reflected from its consequences or results.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““A right which has been conferred by law is manifestly secured by that law. Such concession, however, is no authority for. the contention that a right secured by law must necessarily have been conferred by some law.””
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.