United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
507 F.2d 710 · 1974
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently March 2001
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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 18 U.S.C. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002)
Relies on Powell v. Texas · Union Carbide Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Gordon v. United States · Pope v. United States · United States v. Brawner
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Undoubtedly, the trial court in its rulings was seeking to expedite the trial. This procedure is normally to be commended. But where the plea is insanity, the goal of expediting the trial must not be' allowed to interfere with the defendant’s right to develop fully and completely the many complex and often tenuous circumstances that may shed light on his plea.”
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.