United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
588 F.2d 737 · 1978
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 2019
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 26 U.S.C. § 5861 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Franks v. Delaware · United States v. Barone · United States v. Astroff
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Omissions or misstatements resulting from negligence or good faith mistakes will not invalidate an affidavit which on its face establishes probable cause.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The search warrant must be voided and the fruits of the search suppressed only when the defendant proves his allegations of intentional and reckless falsity by a preponderance of the evidence....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.