Smith v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
169 F.2d 118 · 1948
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently July 1994 · most notably United States v. Rose (1954), United States v. Neff (1954)
31 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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. § 231 (Civil Obedience Act of 1968)
Relies on Weiler v. United States · Fotie v. United States · United States v. Slutzky · Allen v. United States · United States v. Mascuch
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“literally accurate, technically responsive, or legally truthful.”
2 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.