United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
629 F.2d 1301 · 1980
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 952
Relies on United States v. Chadwick · Arkansas v. Sanders · United States v. Ramsey · Union Carbide Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Bottone 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“mingled in the normal stream of commerce so as to lessen certainty that contraband had come directly across the border.”
2 later decisions 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.