United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
832 F.2d 1167 · 1987
Citation profile
34 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably United States v. Arias-Villanueva (1993), United States v. Sanchez-Mata (1991)
34 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 3731 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Pinkerton v. United States · Pereira v. United States · Vandygriff v. Phillips · Hannahville Indian Community 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he government need not prove that the defendant was aware of every detail of the impending crime, nor that he be present at, or personally participate in, committing the substantive crime.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Q]uantity alone may be sufficient for a jury to infer the intent to redistribute a controlled substance.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to the extent that evidence of prior and subsequent negotiations and illicit transactions bears on the issue of a defendant's intent to [perpetrate] the specific criminal act charged in the indictment, such evidence can be used to convict a defendant....”
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.