Smith v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
353 F.2d 838 · 1965
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably Gass v. United States (1969), United States v. Burton (1978)
46 federal appellate · 27 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. § 3005 · 28 U.S.C. § 1732
Relies on Henry v. United States · Pauling v. McElroy · International Union, United Automobile, Aircraft & Agricultural Implement Workers of America v. Anderson · Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America v. Harrington · Federal Power Commission v. Southern California Edison Co.
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On this record, it is unlikely that any jury would have a reasonable doubt regarding appellant Smith’s responsibility for the crime. This, however, is beside the point. It has been the consistent teaching of our past cases that whenever “some evidence” of mental disease or defect is presented, the question of responsibility must be answered by the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whoever is indicted for treason or other capital crime shall be allowed to make his full defense by counsel learned in the law; and the court before which he is tried, or some judge thereof, shall immediately, upon his request, assign him such counsel, not exceeding two, as he may desire ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“absolute right to additional counsel when requested.”
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.