Smith v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
254 F.2d 751 · 1958
Citation profile
70 federal appellate · 11 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1975 · most notably Chimel v. California (1969), Dorman v. United States (1970)
70 federal appellate · 11 district · 10 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 18 U.S.C. § 3109
Relies on Brinegar v. United States · Johnson v. United States · United States v. Rabinowitz · McNabb v. United States · McDonald 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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Unless the necessities of the moment require that the officer break down a door, he cannot do so without a warrant; and if in reasonable contemplation there is opportunity to get a warrant, or the arrest could as well be made by some other method, the outer door to a dwelling cannot be broken to make an arrest without a warrant. The right to break open a door to make an arrest requires something more than the mere right to arrest.” 85 U.S.App. D.C. at page 402, 179 F.2d at page 464 .”
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.