United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
869 F.2d 835 · 1989
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently January 2015 · most notably Barrett v. United States (1992), Brown v. Rison (1990)
25 federal appellate · 2 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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Taylor v. United States · United States v. Byrd · United States v. De Los Reyes · United States v. Brown · Polakoff 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he rules under § 2255 ... do not permit traverse pleadings unless the government moves for dismissal under Rule 9”). Moreover, petitioner did not request or obtain permission to file a traverse, but a”
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.