United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
446 F.2d 200 · 1971
Citation profile
60 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2020 · most notably Barnes v. United States (1973), United States v. Masters (1980)
60 federal appellate · 13 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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. § 1708
Relies on Ashe v. Swenson · Benton v. Maryland · Bartkus v. People of State of Illinois · Abbate v. United States · Wilson 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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“furnishes part of the context of the crime.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage“balancing, on the one side, the actual need for the other-crimes-evidence in light of the issues and the other evidence available to the prosecution, the convincingness of the evidence that other crimes were committed and that the accused was the actor, and the strength or weakness of the other-crimes-evidence in supporting the issue, and on the other, the degree to which the jury will probably be roused by the evidence to overmastering hostility.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“of the case. United States v. Weems, 398 F.2d 274 , 275 (4th Cir.1968), cert. denied, 393 U.S. 1099 (1969) In United States v. Smith, this court stated: The decision in a particular case may be a difficult one, involving”
2 later decisions 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.