United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
653 F.2d 126 · 1981
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2006
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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. § 1955
Relies on Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Woods v. Covington County Bank · Silver Chrysler Plymouth, Inc. v. Chrysler Motors Corp. · General Motors Corporation v. City of New York, for Itself and All Other Persons Similarly Situated, General Motors Corporation v. Hon. Robert L. Carter, Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, and City of New York, for Itself and All Other Persons Similarly Situated
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.
“[a] defendant is not lightly to be deprived of the counsel of his choice,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gilbert v. Moore
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.