Smith v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently October 2003
23 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 Hamling v. United States · Russell v. United States · Santoni v. United States · Hartman v. United States · United States v. Johnson
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) [ ] the evidence was newly discovered since trial; (2) [the defendant] has demonstrated diligence in [his] efforts to procure the evidence; (3) [ ] the evidence is [not] merely cumulative or impeaching; (4) [] the evidence is material to the issues involved; and (5) [ ] the evidence is of such a nature that an acquittal would likely result from its use.”
2 later decisions 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.