United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
160 F.3d 117 · 1998
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably United States of America v. Juan Martinez (2002), United States of America v. Tommy Don Cockerham (2001)
23 federal appellate · 3 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. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on McCarthy v. United States · United States v. Broce · United States v. Barnes · March v. Brown · United States v. Maher
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]otwithstanding the acceptance of a plea of guilty, the court should not enter a judgment . . . without making such inquiry as shall satisfy it that there is a factual basis for the plea.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[The court] may look to answers provided by counsel for the defense and government, the presentence report . . . so long as the factual basis is put on the record.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““that the conduct which the defendant admits constitutes the offense charged in the indictment or information or an offense included therein to which the defendant has pleaded guilty.” Requiring this examination of the relation between the law and the acts the defendant admits having committed is designed to “protect a defendant who is in the position of pleading voluntarily with an understanding of the nature of the charge but without realizing that his conduct does not actually fall within the charge.””
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.