United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
534 F.2d 74 · 1976
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 2011
7 federal appellate · 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.
Relationships
Relies on Barker v. Wingo · Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Mullican 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is clear that validity of [the] conviction under which an escapee is confined is not an element of the offense of unlawfully escaping from confinement in a federal institution”
2 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.