United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
32 F.3d 1291 · 1994
Citation profile
17 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on Michelson v. United States · Yagow v. United States · Tristani v. Eastern Air Lines, Inc. · Penn v. Parke State Bank · Rufo v. Inmates of the Suffolk County Jail
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e consider the evidence in the light most favorable to the guilty verdict, giving the government the benefit of all reasonable inferences that might be drawn from the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'a tacit understanding proven wholly by circumstantial evidence or by inferences'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“entered into an agreement with one or more other persons to violate the law.”
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.