United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
424 F.3d 992 · 2005
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably United States v. Grier (2007), United States v. Mix (2006)
36 federal appellate · 2 district · 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 United States v. Booker · United States v. Olano · Blockburger v. United States · Johnson v. United States · United States v. Frady
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a juror may not testify as to any matter or statement occurring during the course of the jury’s deliberations or to the effect of anything upon that or any other juror’s mind or emotions as influencing the juror to assent to or dissent from the verdict or indictment or concerning the juror’s mental processes in connection therewith. But a juror may testify about (1) whether extraneous prejudicial information was improperly brought to the jury’s attention, (2) whether any outside influence was improperly brought to bear upon any juror, or (3) whether there was a mistake in entering the verdict onto the verdict form....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“If two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose, and one or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“even if the juror's thought process was biased with his alleged 'infatuation' with [the prosecution's summary witness], the court was not free to hear evidence in this regard” in light of Fed.R.Evid. 606(b). Id. at 1013 . The Ninth Circuit further concluded that the letter did not indicate that the juror had received”
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.