Mack v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
659 F.2d 23 · 1981
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably 168 Wis. 2d 509 - State v. Knight (1992), O'Bryan v. Wj Estelle (1983)
34 federal appellate · 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. § 1503 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on MacHibroda v. United States · Bifulco v. United States · Lehman Bros. v. Lilly · Ohio v. Insurance Rating Board · Atilus 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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that § 2255 cannot be used to grant an out-of-time appeal”
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.