United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
887 F.2d 104 · 1989
Citation profile
119 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 175 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably United States v. Morrow (1992), United States v. Saucedo (1991)
119 federal appellate · 3 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. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 3661 (Drug and Alcohol Dependent Offenders Treatment Act of 1986) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on United States v. Tucker · Williams v. State of Oklahoma · United States v. Baylin · United States v. Guerrero
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 175 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“sufficient indicia of reliability to support its probable accuracy.”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“all acts and omissions ... that were part of the same course of conduct or common scheme or plan as the offense of conviction.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In order to comport with due process requirements, ... proof of the relevant conduct should be 'supported by "some minimal indicium of reliability beyond mere allegation.”
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.