United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
643 F.2d 942 · 1981
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently August 2006
11 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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. § 3731
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Wong Sun v. United States · Carroll v. United States · Brinegar v. United States · Scott 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`the proper standard for judging the constitutionality of a search is a totally objective one. '”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'there was an independent and adequate basis for the security search in its own right.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Smith was about to leave with the evidence in hand on the flight.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. United States v. Ho
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.