Smith v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
254 F.2d 865 · 1958
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 1981
8 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 28 U.S.C. § 1345 · 28 U.S.C. § 1444 · 28 U.S.C. § 2410
Relies on United States v. Bank of New York & Trust Co. · Riehle v. Margolies · Farmers' Loan Trust Company v. Lake Street Elevated Railroad Company · Harkin v. Brundage · Coe v. Armour Fertilizer Works
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The settled rule which has risen on the foundation of this principle is that whichever court, state or federal, first obtains constructive possession of property in the exercise of its jurisdiction, is entitled to retain control of that property without interference from the other. Harkin v. Brundage, 1928, 276 U.S. 36 , 43, 48 S.Ct. 268 , 72 L.Ed. 457 ; Farmers’ Loan & Trust Co. of New York v. Lake Street Elevated R. Co., 1900, 177 U.S. 51 , 61, 20 S.Ct. 564 , 44 L.Ed. 667 ; Hagan v. Lucas, 1836, 10 Pet. 400 , 403, 35 U.S. 400 , 403, 9 L.Ed. 470 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jacobs v. DeShetler
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.