United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
895 F.3d 410 · 2018
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1591 (§ 112 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000) · 18 U.S.C. § 2242
Relies on Gideon v. Wainwright · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Solem v. Helm · Zafiro v. United States · Hutto v. Davis
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether the finding of guilt is supported by ... evidence sufficient to justify the trial judge, as the trier of fact, in concluding beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant is guilty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“view all evidence in the light most favorable to the government and defer to all reasonable inferences by the trial court,”
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.