United States v. Smithson’s Empirical Analysis
49 F.3d 138 · 1995
Citation profile
31 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably United States v. Asibor (1997), United States v. Jobe (1996)
31 federal appellate ·
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 11 U.S.C. § 541 · 18 U.S.C. § 152
Relies on Golden Pacific Bancorp v. United States · Maurice Sporting Goods, Inc. v. Maxway Corp. · United States v. Chaney · United States v. West · United States v. Mackay
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) was a correct statement of the law, (2) was not substantially covered in the charge as a whole, and (3) concerned an important point in the trial such that the failure to instruct the jury on the issue seriously impaired the defendant's ability to present a given defense.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We afford the district court substantial latitude in formulating the jury instructions and review a district court's refusal to give a requested instruction for abuse of discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he loss to the estate resulting from the concealment was, for all practical purposes, zero.”
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.