United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
403 F.2d 74 · 1968
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently September 2011 · most notably United States v. Calhoun (1976), United States v. Czarnecki (1977)
26 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 Bruton v. United States · Marshall v. United States · United Gas Improvement Co. v. Continental Oil Co. · Magenau v. Aetna Freight Lines, Inc. · Leo P. Reistroffer v. United States of America, W. L. Rogers v. United States of America, Marvin Norris 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not an easy matter to determine what effect the statement of the witness that the defendant had just been released from the penitentiary had on the jury. We believe under the facts of this case that the probability that the incompetent evidence affected the outcome of the jury verdict is so strong that it resulted in an unfair trial for the defendant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“completely disregard the statement that this witness had made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.