United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
736 F.2d 1103 · 1984
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 5 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably State v. Broom (1988), United States v. Frazier (2004)
52 federal appellate · 5 district · 28 state decisions — followed in 18 states
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. § 2113
Relies on Hamling v. United States · Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Newman Oil Co. · Jones v. Howard · Goldstein v. Garrity · Yazoo County Industrial Development Corp. Et Al. v. Suthoff Et Al.
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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n reviewing a 403 balancing, the court must look at the evidence in the light most favorable to the proponent, maximizing its probative value and minimizing its prejudicial effect,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he day may have arrived ... when Dr. Fulero's testimony [a psychologist offered as an expert] can be said to conform to a generally accepted explanatory theory.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Four factors must appear in the record to uphold the admission of expert testimony: 1. qualified expert; 2. proper subject; 3. conformity to a generally accepted explanatory theory; and 4. probative value compared to prejudicial effect.”
4 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.