United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
831 F.2d 657 · 1987
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 2006
9 federal appellate ·
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
Relies on Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Davis v. Alaska · Rose v. Clark · Quercia v. United States · Coastal Steel Corp. v. Wheelabrator-Frye, Inc.
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.
“is intended to indicate my opinion as to how you should decide the case, or to influence you in any way.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McMillan v. Castro
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.