Smith v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
876 F.2d 655 · 1989
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably United States v. Hammer (1993), United States v. Wright (1994)
26 federal appellate · 2 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 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Thunder v. United States · O'Leary v. United States · Roudybush v. Zabel · United States v. Portillo
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]ecause Smith did not raise these claims at sentencing, he is precluded from raising them in a section 2255 motion.”
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.