United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
563 F.2d 1361 · 1977
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently June 2009 · most notably 37 Cal. 3d 351 - People v. McDonald (1984), United States v. Danzey (1979)
24 federal appellate · 1 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 18 U.S.C. § 2114 · 18 U.S.C. § 3502
Relies on United States v. Wade · United States v. Telfaire · United States v. Amaral · United States v. Brown · United States v. Levi
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the annals of criminal law are rife with instances of mistaken identification.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Any emotion, such as extreme fright, experienced by the witness during the criminal ordeal which might lessen the value of his later selection of the accused as the culprit ought to be weighed carefully.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harper v. Kelly
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.