Smith v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
61 F.2d 681 · 1932
Citation profile
16 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently May 2007
16 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
Relies on Burton v. United States · United States v. Solomon Kenofskey · United States v. Hardaway Young · Silkworth v. United States · Chew v. United States
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We think that evidence adduced tended to prove that one of the accused, who was a party to the scheme to defraud, in pursuance thereof and for the purpose of executing that scheme or attempting so to do, so participated in the transaction which included the use of the mails, when he knew or had reason to believe that the mails would be used in that transaction—that being a natural and probable part of such a transaction—as, within the meaning of the statute, to become chargeable with causing or bringing about the sending or delivery of the mentioned letter by the Post Office establishment of the United States, though that letter was sent by one having no knowledge of or guilty connection with the alleged fraudulent scheme.” Smith v. United States, 5 Cir., 61 F.2d 681 , 684. 2 3”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he guilt of the accused who were on trial was not dependent upon either of them taking part in causing the alleged use of the mails, if another accused who was a party to the alleged scheme to defraud . . . in pursuance of that scheme and for the purpose of executing it or attempting to do so, knowingly caused the alleged use of the mails.”
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.