Smith v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
726 F.2d 428 · 1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 2023
2 federal appellate · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 42 U.S.C. § 247B (Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009)
Relies on Smith v. Magnet Cove Barium Corp. · Hays v. Williams · In Re Swine Flu Immunization Prod. Liability Lit. · 557 F. Supp. 42 - Smith 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘Preponderance of the evidence’ has been defined as ‘evidence which, when weighed with that opposed to it, has more convincing force and is more properly true and accurate. [When] the evidence appears to be equally balanced, or if it cannot be said upon which side it weighs heavier, then plaintiff has not met his or her burden of proof.’”
5 later decisions 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.