United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
55 F.3d 157 · 1995
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably In Re: Leroy Richards Nominal Hon Ive a Swan, United States v. Martin (2002)
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 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 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Rinaldi v. United States · Confiscation Cases · Newman v. United States · United States v. Cowan · United States v. Hamm
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the disposition of a government's motion to dismiss an indictment should be decided by determining whether the prosecutor acted in good faith at the time he moved for dismissal.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Few subjects are less 12 adapted to judicial review than the exercise by the Executive of his 13 discretion in deciding when and whether to institute criminal 14 proceedings, or what precise charge shall be made, or whether to 15 dismiss a proceeding once brought.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“prosecutor's acceptance of a bribe, personal dislike of the victim, and dissatisfaction with the jury impaneled”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.