United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
790 F.2d 789 · 1986
Citation profile
140 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 202 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably United States v. Tarantino (1988), United States v. Yarbrough (1988)
140 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 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. § 3231 · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 474 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Illinois v. Gates · Carroll v. United States · United States v. Young · United States v. Frady
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 202 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“under the totality of the circumstances known to the arresting officers, a prudent person would have concluded that there was a fair probability that [the defendant] had committed a crime.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'one overall agreement' to perform various functions to achieve the objectives of the conspiracy.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'This and other circuits have consistently recognized that, under proper instruction, evidence of a guilty plea may be elicited by the prosecutor on direct examination so that the jury may assess the credibility of the witnesses....' Even where the government's use of a co-defendant's guilty plea is permissible, the trial court is obliged to deliver 'adequate cautionary instructions that make it clear to lay people that evidence of a witness' own guilty plea can be used only to assess credibility.'”
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.