United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
253 F.2d 95 · 1958
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently April 2001 · most notably Johnson v. United States (1961), Mares v. United States (1968)
30 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
Relies on Glasser v. United States · United States v. Trenton Potteries Co. · United States v. Moran · Apodaca v. United States · United States v. Green
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the failure of the district attorney to sustain his opening statements could not be prejudicial to the defendant but rather to the government.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to lead on; to influence; to prevail on; to move by persuasion or influence”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. United States v. He
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.