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United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

774 F.2d 1005 · 1985

Citation profile

7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
June 1997
most recently cited

5 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)

Relies on Morton v. Ruiz · United States v. Lilly · United States v. Caldwell

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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Failure by the warden in the instant case to comply with [C.F.R. § 552.11(c)] ... is violative of due process.”
    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.