United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
7 F.3d 1164 · 1993
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently July 2015
7 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 18 U.S.C. § 3731 · 18 U.S.C. § 871 (Presidential Threat Protection Act of 2000)
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Oregon v. Elstad · United States v. Russell · Bibby v. United States · Daniel v. Security Pacific National Bank
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f [the defendant] [were] merely mentally unbalanced, [but not insane,] it is the government’s right ... to prosecute him for the offense charged. We note that it is frequently an unbalanced person who commits the offense of threatening — and sometimes of attempting to kill — a president.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“measures to insure that the right against compulsory self-incrimination is protected.”
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.