United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
535 F.3d 883 · 2008
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably United States v. Jenkins (2009), United States v. Saddler (2008)
20 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 844 (§ 404 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on United States v. Regans · United States v. Harper · United States v. Fuentes Torres · United States v. Allebach · United States v. Pate
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when the defendant is out and about, with' drugs on his person and a loaded firearm within easy reach, one can infer from' the proximity of the weapon to the drugs is not coincidental and that the firearm “facilitated, or had the potential of facilitating,” the drug offense by emboldening the possessor.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“facilitated, or had the potential of facilitating, another felony offense”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When the other felony offense is merely a drug possession offense, note 14(A) applies and the district court may make the requisite “in connection with” finding, but is not required to do so. As we held in Regans, however, if that finding is made, it will rarely be clearly erroneous.”
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.