Smith v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
458 F.2d 1231 · 1972
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 1992
3 federal appellate · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act)
Relies on Smith v. United States · 76 F. Supp. 1018 - Niagara Falls Bridge Commission v. United States · 169 F. Supp. 73 - Feldwin Realty Co. v. United States · Carroll 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““From the outset, the government was fully aware that the Smiths insisted upon either possession of the premises or rental for their use. ‘(I)f the United States occupies a person’s premises, it is, ordinarily, liable for the rental value thereof even though it occupies them against the will of the owner and without an intention on the part of the United States to pay rent.””
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.