United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
912 F.2d 322 · 1990
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably United States v. Ursery (1995), United States v. Patterson (2002)
23 federal appellate · 3 district · 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. § 13 (Assimilative Crimes Act)
Relies on Kercheval v. United States · Serfass v. United States · Dowling v. United States · Breed v. Jones · Crist v. Bretz
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[j]eopardy ordinarily attaches upon the court's acceptance of a plea agreement,”
2 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.