United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
553 F.2d 1239 · 1977
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 2020
13 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. § 2114
Relies on United States v. Spears · Aderhold v. Schiltz · United States v. Spain
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“absence of prejudice to the defendant does not cure what is necessarily a substantive, jurisdictional defect in the indictment”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“whether an assault with intent to rob . . . is adequately charged by an indictment alleging an attempt to rob.”
1 later decision 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.