Smith v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 1 district ·

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““This after-discovered evidence as to what had occurred some two days before the time the defendant was brought into the matter, as testified to by Mrs.' Self, is to the effect that she had at that time already planned for the trip for a legitimate purpose, with which the defendant was in no manner connected. The value to the accused of this after-discovered evidence cannot well be over-estimated, and the importance of the time of making the arrangement, as set forth in the affidavits, becomes only too apparent.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Yoder v. United States