Smith v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
173 F.2d 181 · 1949
Citation profile
65 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently July 1974 · most notably United States v. Bacall (1971), Roe v. United States (1963)
65 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.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2113
Relies on Berger v. United States · United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · United States v. Atkinson · Michelson v. United States · Bollenbach 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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The admitted normal rule is that an appellate court will not consider matters which are alleged as error for the first time on appeal, and this is true of criminal as well as civil cases. However, an exception exists in criminal cases where the alleged error would result in a manifest miscarriage of justice, or would ‘seriously affect the fairness, integrity, or public reputation of judicial proceedings.’ The appellate tribunal will' examine the record sufficiently to determine whether such has occurred.” [Footnotes omitted.]”
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.