United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
548 F.2d 545 · 1977
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 2012
16 federal appellate · 1 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. § 3150 (Bail Reform Act of 1984) · 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · United States v. Uptain · United States v. Prout · United States v. Wayman · United States v. Moore
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must prove that the defendant knowingly did an act which the law forbids[,] ... purposely intending to violate the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hutchison v. State
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.