United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
286 U.S. 6 · 1932
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 9 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2019 · most notably United States v. Borden Co. (1939), Wheeldin v. Wheeler (1963)
29 federal appellate · 9 district · 38 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on William Marbury v. James Madison · Burnet v. Coronado Oil & Gas Co. · United States v. Ballin · Crawford v. Gilchrist
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may not by its rules ignore constitutional restraints or violate fundamental rights, and there should be a reasonable relation between the mode or method of proceeding established by the rules and the result which is sought to be obtained. But within these limitations all matters of method are open to the determination of the house....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he Court must give great weight to [Congress's] ... construction of its own rules ....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“as the construction to be given to the rules affects persons other than members of the Senate, the question presented is of necessity a judicial one.”
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.