Smith v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
384 F.2d 649 · 1967
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 2022
4 federal appellate · 4 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 Anders v. California · Douglas v. People of State of California · Harders v. California · Camodeo 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The present application is of little help to either the court or the client. The cause of advocacy is not served to read a brief filed by appellant's own counsel asserting the government's position in the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Robinson v. Black“no genuine issue or legal point which can be raised [on] appeal,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Robinson v. Black
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.