United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
464 F.2d 1129 · 1972
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 2007
11 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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. § 1951 (Hobbs Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 891 · 18 U.S.C. § 892 · 18 U.S.C. § 894 · 18 U.S.C. § 896 · 29 U.S.C. § 186 (§ 302 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act))
Relies on Pinkerton v. United States · Yates v. United States · Hyde v. United States · Perez v. United States · Linkletter v. Walker
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(a) Whoever travels in interstate or foreign commerce or uses any facility in interstate or foreign commerce, including the mail, with intent to— ... (2) commit any crime of violence to further any unlawful activity; . . . and thereafter performs or attempts to perform any of the acts specified . . . shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned for not more than five years, or both. “(b) As used in this section ‘unlawful activity’ means ... (2) extortion . . . in violation of the laws of the State in which committed or of the United States.””
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.