United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
477 F.2d 399 · 1973
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably United States v. Shilling (1987), United States v. Blankenship (2009)
18 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 26 U.S.C. § 5845 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968) · 26 U.S.C. § 5861 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on United States v. Freed · United States v. Balint · Sipes v. United States · Wiley v. United States · United States v. Crow
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]o do so would take about an 8-hour working day in a properly equipped machine shop,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“readily restored to shoot automatically,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“automatically as provided in 26 U.S.C. § 5845(b) when it would take an eight-hour day in a properly equipped machine shop). 9 We are not persuaded by Mullins's contention that the district court abused its discretion by allowing the government's expert testimony. Expert testimony is admissible”
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.