United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
30 F.3d 568 · 1994
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably United States v. Han (1996), United States v. Rhynes (1999)
18 federal appellate · 2 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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Carroll v. United States · United States v. Mendenhall · Carolco Television Inc. v. National Broadcasting Co. · United States v. Rusher
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This court reviews legal conclusions related to search and seizure issues de novo.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. United States v. Han
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.