United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
282 F.3d 758 · 2002
Citation profile
63 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 123 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably State v. Ring (2003), United States v. Tinoco (2002)
63 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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. § 2 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 952 · 21 U.S.C. § 960 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 46 U.S.C. § 70505
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Apprendi v. New Jersey · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Griffin v. California · Johnson 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 123 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether the United States had jurisdiction over the place where the vessel was allegedly intercepted,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether the vessel was actually intercepted at that place”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the waters where a vessel -is allegedly intercepted,”
2 later decisions 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.