Smith v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
406 F.2d 667 · 1968
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Graves v. United States · Gordon v. United States · Luck v. United States · Samuel H. Hood v. United States of America, Harry A. Jackson v. United States · Maurice Evans v. United States of America, John B. Philson 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the trial judge gave due consideration to the policy underlying Luck.”
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.