United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
781 F.2d 184 · 1986
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
September 1999
most recently cited
7 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Gravel v. United States · Long v. District of Columbia · United States v. Doe · Cross Baking Co. v. National Labor Relations Board
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Rule 40 of the Fed.R.App.P. was not promulgated, in the absence of demonstrable mistake, to permit reconsideration of the same matters, nor can a party shift his position on petition for rehearing.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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