Smith v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

105 federal appellate · 1 district · 16 state decisions

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 132 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Contrary to appellant’s claim, the authorities demonstrate that the balance between the rights of public justice and those of the accused has been upset against the Government only where the delay has been arbitrary, purposeful, oppressive or vexatious.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Finton v. Lane · Maurice Evans v. United States of America, John B. Philson v. United States

2. ““The conduct with which the defense of entrapment is concerned is the manufacturing of crime by law enforcement officials and their agents. Such conduct, of course, is far different from the permissible stratagems involved in the detection and prevention of crime. Thus before the issue of entrapment can fairly be said to have been presented in a criminal prosecution there must have been at least some showing of the kind of conduct by government agents which may well have induced the accused to commit the crime charged.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. García

3. “In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial * * *.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. Jones