United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
31 F.3d 469 · 1994
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably United States v. Smith (2000), United States v. Rodriguez (1995)
14 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 Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Rushen v. Spain · United States v. Gagnon · Rogers v. United States
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The defendant is entitled to be present at all stages of his trial, ... and a judge's response to a note from the jury is one of those stages.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“whenever his presence has a relation, reasonably substantial, to the fullness of his opportunity to defend against the charge,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“must be given an opportunity to be heard before the trial judge responds to any juror inquiry.”
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.