United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently April 2006 · most notably Dettinger v. United States (1979), United States v. Passini (1980)
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 10 U.S.C. § 802 · 10 U.S.C. § 831 · 10 U.S.C. § 907
Relies on United States v. Hutchins · United States v. Smith
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t must be such that one can say that at some precise moment the sovereign had authoritatively signaled its intent to impose its legal processes upon the individual. For that to be the case, that action, whatever it is, must have been official.[ 13 ]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“by their own terms automatically become effective on the specified effective date without any further action being required.”
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.