Smith v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
324 F.2d 436 · 1963
Citation profile
67 federal appellate · 3 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions — most recently September 2007 · most notably Trujillo v. United States (1967), Everett v. United States (1964)
67 federal appellate · 3 district · 31 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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. § 4161 · 26 U.S.C. § 7237 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Anderson v. McKay · Diggs v. Welch · United States v. Wight · United States v. Parking
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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“of a plea of guilty, but a matter of legislative grace. It is equally true that noneligibility for parole is not a”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“consequence of the withholding of legislative grace.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A defendant may plead not guilty, guilty or, with the consent of the court, nolo con-tendere. The court may refuse to accept a plea of guilty, and shall not accept such plea or a plea of nolo contendere without first addressing the defendant personally and determining that the plea is made voluntarily with understanding of the nature of the charge and the consequences of the plea. . . . [Emphasis added.]”
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.