Smith v. Hiatt’s Empirical Analysis
170 F.2d 61 · 1948
Citation profile
10 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1975
10 federal appellate ·
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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 1482
Relies on Johnson v. Zerbst · Quirin Haupt Kerling Burger Heinck Thiel Neubauer United States Quirin v. Cox Usa 6 · Yamashita Yamashita v. Styer US · Martin v. Mott · Swaim 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No charge will be referred to a general court martial for trial until after a thorough and impartial investigation thereof shall have been made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Humphrey v. Smith
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.