Smith v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
287 F.2d 299 · 1961
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably Chaney v. City of Galveston (1966), Roberts v. Williams (1971)
47 federal appellate · 4 district · 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 18 U.S.C. § 1012
Relies on United States Marcus v. Hess · United States v. Yellow Cab Co. · Rainwater v. United States · United States v. McNinch · United States v. Borin
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Little need be said as to the statute of limitations. The six year period is to be computed from the time of the "commission of the act.”.... The "act" in question is the filing of the false claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]e do not retry the case. We may determine only whether the findings pass muster under the clearly erroneous concept of F.R. Civ.P. 52(a), 28 U.S.C.A.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“applies even where there is no direct liability running from the Government to the claimant.”
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.