United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
521 F.2d 374 · 1975
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently March 2010 · most notably United States v. John E. Test, Francis R. Salazar v. United States of America, United States of America v. Enrique Sandoval Chavez, United States of America v. Cameron David Bishop (1976), United States v. Browner (1989)
38 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 28 U.S.C. § 1867
Relies on Dusky v. United States · Relford v. Commandant, U. S. Disciplinary Barracks · Luck v. United States · Munroe v. United States · Robert Charles Maguire v. United States of America, Charles Russel Giles v. United States
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . [T]est must be whether he has sufficient present ability to consult with his lawyer with a reasonable degree of rational understanding — and whether he has a rational as well as factual understanding of the proceedings against him.’ ” (p. 402.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Holloway“necessarily requires a showing that a recognizable, identifiable class of persons, otherwise entitled to be jury members, has been purposefully and systematically excluded from jury service.”
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.