Smith v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
233 F.2d 744 · 1956
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1978
13 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Idaho District Court)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2312
Relies on Stein v. People of State of New York Wissner · Brooks v. United States · United States v. Bucur · Elwert v. United States · Davilman 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘taking the personal property of another for one’s own use without right or law, and * * * such a taking can exist whenever the intent to do so comes into existence and is deliberately carried out regardless of how the parties so taking the car may have originally come into possession of it.’ ” 2 233 F.2d at page 747 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.