Troy Cheair Smith v. United States of America, Evander Frierson Smith v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
230 F.2d 935 · 1956
Citation profile
72 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently July 1992 · most notably United States v. Pope (1977), United States v. Jacobs (1973)
72 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Morissette v. United States · Schmeller v. United States · State v. Price · Strauch 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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The fact that one instruction is correct does not cure the error in giving another that is inconsistent with it.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thompson v. State · Hall v. State“ignored the element of criminal motive and guilty mind.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“any statement, knowing the same to be false”
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.