United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
35 F.3d 344 · 1994
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 2015
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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. § 1623 · 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 26 U.S.C. § 6050I
Relies on Patterson v. United States · Blanton v. General Electric Credit Corp. · Chlorine Institute, Inc. v. Occupational Safety & Health Administration · Dunn v. United States · Del Toro 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.
“has not substantially affected the proceeding”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the statute is unambiguous on its face, the language of the statute is conclusive as to legislative intent, and we thus [can not] abandon the ordinary . . . meaning”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“construction . . . defeat[s] the plain language of the statute and [does] not foster any clearly articulated legislative intent to the contrary.”
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.