United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
605 F.2d 839 · 1979
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 2014
12 federal appellate · 5 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. § 2312
Relies on Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Santoni v. United States · Britt v. North Carolina · United States v. Beechum · Roberts v. LaVallee
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.
“differences in access to the instruments needed to vindicate legal rights, when based upon the financial situation of the defendant are repugnant to the Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jackson v. Estelle
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.