Smith v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
359 F.2d 481 · 1966
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently November 1983
19 federal appellate · 3 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. § 500 · 18 U.S.C. § 641 (Livestock Fraud Protection Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1915
Relies on Rodriguez v. New York · Everett v. United States · Lansky v. Savoretti · United States v. Fox · District of Columbia v. Buckley
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Petitioner had no absolute right to withdraw a plea of guilty before sentencing. In such cases where the right has been denied, we will reverse only for abuse of the trial court’s discretion and the burden is upon petitioner to establish his grounds for withdrawal of the pleading.” Accord, Pitt v. United States, 378 F.2d 608 , 611 (8th Cir. 1967).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ ‘Overwhelming authority holds, as has this court, that withdrawal of a guilty plea before sentencing is not an absolute right but a decision within the sound discretion of the trial court which will be reversed by an appellate court only for an abuse of that discretion.’ ””
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.