United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
523 F.2d 788 · 1975
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 1996 · most notably United States v. Farris (1996), United States v. Yonn (1983)
19 federal appellate · 4 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. § 2312 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Patton v. United States · United States v. Guerrero-Peralta · Horne v. United States · United States v. Taylor
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“b. Jury of Less Than Twelve. Jury shall be of twelve, but at any time before verdict the parties may stipulate in writing with the approval of the Court that the jury shall consist of any number less than twelve or that a valid verdict may be returned by a jury of less than twelve should the court find it necessary to excuse one or more jurors for any just cause after trial commences.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“unless the defendant waives a jury trial in writing ....”
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.