United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
780 F.2d 1102 · 1985
Citation profile
62 federal appellate · 5 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably United States v. Moussaoui (2003), United States v. Abu Ali (2008)
62 federal appellate · 5 district · 11 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. § 793
Relies on Roviaro v. United States · McCray v. State of Illinois · United States v. Valenzuela-Bernal · Trammel v. United States · United States v. Reynolds
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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“taking into consideration the crime charged, the possible defenses, the possible significance of the informer's testimony, and other relevant factors.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“evidence having any tendency to make the existence of any fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action more probable or less probable than it would be without the evidence.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“practice whereby a criminal defendant threatens to reveal classified information during the course of his trial in the hope of forcing the government to drop the criminal charge against him,”
3 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.