United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
629 F.2d 650 · 1980
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably United States v. McCullah (1996), United States v. Eisen (1992)
30 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 843 (§ 403 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Jones v. Nor-Tex Agencies, Inc. · Allied Structural Steel Co. v. Spannaus · United States v. Louisiana · Whitten v. United States · Moore 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Evidence of threats to a prosecution witness is admissible as showing consciousness of guilt if a direct connection is established between the defendant and the threat.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“only if the party was unfairly prevented from arguing his defense to the jury or was substantially misled in formulating his arguments”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“inform counsel of its proposed action upon the requests [for jury instructions] prior to their arguments to the jury....”
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.