United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
843 F.2d 1148 · 1988
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently January 2010 · most notably Ramey v. United States (1993), English v. United States (1993)
27 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 472 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Brady v. State of Maryland · Kimmelman v. Morrison · Burson v. Hanover Ins. Co
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here the sufficiency of the evidence is decided on direct appeal, review of the issue in a § 2255 motion is precluded.”
3 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.