Smith v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently October 2016
12 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 Chapman v. State of California · Bruton v. United States · Burks v. United States · Richardson v. Marsh · Padilla-Martinez 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In order to determine whether a substantial risk exists [that the jury will improperly use the confession against the non-confessing codefendant], `the trial court must consider the degree of inference the jury must make to connect the defendant to the statement and the degree of risk that the jury will make that linkage despite a limiting instruction.' The trial court's assessment as to whether the redaction effectively avoids linkage with the defendant must be make in the context of other evidence admitted at trial."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“For purposes of appeal . . . [appellant] has waived the issue of the legality of his seizure by failing to move to suppress evidence before trial, as required by statute and court rules.”
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.