Smith v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
312 F.2d 867 · 1962
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 1997
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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. § 3432
Relies on Jones v. United States · Holland v. United States · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Boyd v. United States · Walder 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To obtain witnesses under Rule 17(b), the indigent is compelled to tell the Government, under oath, who they are, where they live, and what they will testify to. In addition, the defendant, in his affidavit, shall show that the evidence of the witnesses] is material to the defense, that the defendant cannot safely go to trial without them. Not only must the accused speculate as to what the witnesses will say, but he must explain, under oath, the materiality of the testimony to his defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Rule 17(b) apparently presents an indigent with [a] Hobson's choice: either make no defense or disclose his whole case to the Government before his trial.”
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.