United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
907 F.2d 42 · 1990
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 3 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2020 · most notably State v. Taylor (2002), United States v. Sammons (1990)
17 federal appellate · 3 district · 14 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
Relies on Faretta v. California · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Bounds v. Smith · Younger v. Gilmore · United States v. Chatman
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Rule 12(f) [of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure] provides that failure to make a pre-trial motion before the motion cut-off date set by the court 'shall constitute waiver' of the motion, unless the court, 'for cause shown ... grant[s] relief from the waiver.' " Id. at 819 (omission and second alteration in the original). The District Court explicitly refused to grant relief in this case, and defendant has waived his right to raise on appeal the issues contained in his untimely motion to suppress. 12 Defendant Key asserts on appeal that the District Court compromised his rights by refusing to allow him extra time to file a motion to suppress the wiretap evidence when the District Court knew that the Key had been having trouble gaining access to a law library. We have held on several occasions that "the state does not have to provide access to a law library to defendants in criminal trials who wish to represent themselves.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“cannot complain about the quality of his own defense by arguing that it amounted to ineffective assistance of counsel”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gall v. Parker
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.