Smith v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
377 F.2d 739 · 1967
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably United States v. Premises Known As Taylor Ave Apartment Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Margolis (1978), In re Grand Jury Empanelled (1979)
22 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Di Bella v. United States · Carroll v. United States · Cogen v. United States · In re the Grand Jury Investigation of Violations of 18 U.S.C. § 1621
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not an independent proceeding but merely a step in the criminal prosecution.”
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.