Smith v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
603 F.2d 722 · 1979
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently September 1990
3 federal appellate ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Kerr v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California · Houser v. United States · United States v. Burkhalter · Hall v. Bostic · United States v. Shead
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Reliable hearsay evidence is admissible in probation revocation hearings”
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.