United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
525 F.2d 1017 · 1975
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 2005 · most notably United States v. Davis (1979), United States v. Robertson (1978)
14 federal appellate · 10 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
Relies on Faretta v. California · Santobello v. New York · Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Adams v. United States Ex Rel. McCann · Price v. Johnston
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"If, as the Supreme Court said in Santobello, plea bargaining is an essential component of justice and, properly administered, is to be encouraged, it is immediately apparent that no defendant or his counsel will pursue such an effort if the remarks uttered during the course of it are to be admitted in evidence as proof of guilt. Moreover, it is inherently unfair for the government to encourage such an activity only to use it as a weapon against the defendant when negotiations fail."”
3 later decisions 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.