United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
649 F.2d 305 · 1981
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently October 2010
15 federal appellate · 1 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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · United States v. Mendenhall · United States v. Elmore · United States v. Robinson · United States v. Pulvano
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Voluntariness is a question to be determined from the totality of the circumstances, ... and we will not disturb the trial court's determination on appeal unless it is clearly erroneous.”
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.