United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
601 F.2d 972 · 1979
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2007
11 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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Rachal v. United States · United States v. Atkins · United States v. Holder · Tuscan Dairy Farms, Inc. v. Barber
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“substantial risk of adverse collateral consequences that might flow from an invalid but unreversed conviction.”
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.