United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
452 F.3d 323 · 2006
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably United States v. Engle (2012), United States v. Hemphill (2008)
17 federal appellate · 3 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 · Kastigar v. United States · United States, v. Jacinto Rodriguez-Moreno · United States v. Anderson
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Questions of trial management are quintessentially the province of the district courts.” United States v. Smith, 452 F.3d 323 , 332 (4th Cir.2006); see also Stuart v. Huff, 706 F.3d 345 , 350 (4th Cir.2013) (honoring the trial court’s”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“isolate[s] the district [court's] questions from their place in [each] witness's entire testimony”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“proper only in a district in which an essential conduct element of the offense took place.”
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.