Smith v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
83 F.2d 631 · 1936
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently November 1989
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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 38 U.S.C. § 701 · 38 U.S.C. § 705 · 38 U.S.C. § 717
Relies on Lynch v. United States · Wong Tai v. United States · Armour Packing Company v. United States · Connors v. United States · Silberschein v. United States
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘But even though the particularity prayed be denied, though a special demurrer be .interposed and overruled, or, it would seem, a bill of particulars be requested and refused, nevertheless the judgment of conviction will not on this account be reversed if from the whole record it appears that no substantial prejudice to the defendant has resulted.’ [Cases cited.] “The overruling of demurrer or motion will not avail on error unless it appears ‘that the substantial rights of the accused were prejudiced by the refusal of the court to require a more restricted or specific statement of the particular made [mode] in which the offense charged was committed.’ [Cases cited.]””
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.