Smith v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
291 F.2d 220 · 1961
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 2024
1 federal appellate · 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. § 2113
Relies on 16 Cal. 2d 216 - People v. Werner · Loney v. United States · Hite v. United States · Rutkowski v. United States · Davis v. State
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.
“smooth[ing] the way for the commission of the crime in order that the criminal might be apprehended.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burwell v. State
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.