Smith v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
179 federal appellate · 74 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 460 later decisions (28 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2024 · most notably Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain (2004), Morrison v. National Australia Bank Ltd. (2010)
179 federal appellate · 74 district · 6 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedSmith v. United States (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Dalehite v. United States · United States v. Kubrick · Richards v. United States · United States v. Nordic Village, Inc. · United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co.
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 460 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he presumption is rooted in a number of considerations, not the least of which is the commonsense notion that Congress generally legislates with domestic concerns in mind.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“unintended clashes between our laws and those of other nations which could result in international discord.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Congress does not in general intend to create venue gaps, which take away with one hand what Congress has given by way of jurisdictional grant with the other.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.