United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
608 F.2d 1011 · 1979
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably United States v. Gordon (1990), United States v. Brooks (1997)
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 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. § 1112 · 18 U.S.C. § 3501
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Boyd v. United States · Brewer v. Williams · Michigan v. Mosley · United States v. Collins
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“voluntarily, knowingly and intelligently”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Through the exercise of his option to terminate questioning [the suspect] can control the time at which questioning occurs, the subjects discussed, and the duration of the interrogation. The requirement that law enforcement authorities must respect a person’s exercise of that option counteracts the coercive pressures of the custodial setting.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“coherence, of an understanding of what is happening”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moore v. Ballone
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.