United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
283 F.2d 760 · 1960
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably United States v. Mallah (1974), United States v. Hutul (1969)
33 federal appellate · 5 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 Boyd v. United States · Nash v. United States · Malatkofski v. United States · United States v. Modern Reed & Rattan Co.
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Such evidence is indeed not irrelevant; it is the kind of proof that in ordinary affairs we constantly use; we reason that, if a man has been guilty of unlawful or immoral conduct on other occasions, especially those that concern the same subject matter, there is an initial probability that he was guilty of the specific charge at bar. It is inadmissible, however, because it unduly confuses the decision of the issue on which the case must finally turn, and makes it likely that the jury may substitute the general moral obliquity of the accused. 283 F.2d at 763 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the better opinion is that the opponent of the evidence must ask for that [limiting] instruction; otherwise, he may be supposed to have waived it as unnecessary for his protection.”
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.