United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
436 F.2d 787 · 1971
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 3 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently February 1992 · most notably United States v. Thevis (1982), United States v. Philip Berrigan, in No. 72-1938, and Elizabeth McAlister Appeal of Elizabeth McAlister In (1973)
32 federal appellate · 3 district · 9 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 500
Relies on Illinois v. Allen · Time, Inc. v. Bon Air Hotel, Inc. · Royal Netherlands Steamship Co. v. Strachan Shipping Co. · Turner v. Louisiana · Southern Railway Co. v. North Carolina
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“". . . A psychiatric examination is not an adversary proceeding. No inculpatory statements made to the examiner are admissible. To hold a psychiatric examination of an accused without his counsel present is not error. See United States v. Albright, 4 Cir. 1968, 388 F.2d 719, 726-727 ; Caster v. United States, 5 Cir. 1963, 319 F.2d 850 , cert. denied, 1964, 376 U.S. 953 , 84 S.Ct. 972 , 11 L.Ed.2d 973 ."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“require the court to accept what is said in the application as gospel and forbid resorting to other sources to test the veracity of the averments.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Calley v. Callaway
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.