United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2024
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 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 21 U.S.C. § 879 (§ 509 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Wong Sun v. United States · Katz v. United States · Jones v. United States · Chambers v. Maroney · Camara v. Municipal Court of City and County of San Francisco
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person does not have a reasonable expectation of privacy ... with regard to a car he has permission to use but is not using at the time of the search.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Miller v. State“[T]he fact that a private dwelling is entered at night has constitutional significance.”
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.