United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
700 F.2d 627 · 1983
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably State v. Finley (1996), United States v. Espinosa (1985)
39 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 26 U.S.C. § 5861 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Mansion House Center South Redevelopment Co. v. United States · Weatherford v. Bursey · Washington v. Confederated Bands & Tribes of the Yakima Indian Nation · United States v. Bell
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a reasonable trier of fact could find that the evidence establishes guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[w]e're not in the business of doing that kind of thing, lies of that nature”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.