United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
201 F.3d 1317 · 2000
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably United States v. Matchett (2015), Stanley v. City of Dalton (2000)
12 federal appellate · 1 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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Florida v. Royer · United States v. Mendenhall · United States v. Cortez · United States v. Brignoni-Ponce · Florida v. Bostick
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is the firmly established rule of this Circuit that each succeeding panel is bound by the holding of the first panel to address an issue of law, unless and until that holding is overruled en banc, or by the Supreme Court.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Terry P. Murphy, Steven A. Murphy, as Co-Personal Representatives of the Estate of Brendan M. Murphy, and as Parents and Natural Guardians of Steven A. Murphy, Jr., a Minor v. Florida Keys Electric Cooperative Association, Inc., Defendant-Third-Party-Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellant v. Raymond Ashman, Iii, Individually and as Parent and Natural Guardian, of Raymond Ashman, Iv, a Minor Child, Third-Party-Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellee, Steven A. Murphy, Sr., Third-Party-Defendants · Stanley v. City of Dalton“seemingly innocuous to the ordinary citizen.”
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.