United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
44 F.3d 1259 · 1995
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently November 2022 · most notably United States v. Voigt (1996), United States v. Queen (1997)
49 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 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. § 1343 · 18 U.S.C. § 1956 (§ 1352 of the Money Laundering Control Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 1957 (§ 1352 of the Money Laundering Control Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 2
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Glasser v. United States · Hamling v. United States · Carnegie v. United States · Zafiro 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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“details about the nature of the unlawful activity underlying the [money laundering] need not be alleged.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“he was ... in constructive possession and control of the fraudulently procured funds at the time those funds were transferred in violation of § 1957”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“caus[ed] $374,578.00 to be transferred and deposited to the Grimm-Gray Trust account at the Sun Bank, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, which funds were the proceeds of a wire fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1343. " Id. at 1264 (emphasis added). Reasoning that "the requirement that the funds be illegally derived is not the distinguishing aspect and therefore does not lie at the core of the offense,”
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.