United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
914 F.2d 565 · 1990
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently November 2012 · most notably United States v. Williams (1992), United States v. Simons (2000)
44 federal appellate · 2 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. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Illinois v. Gates · Glasser v. United States · Mansion House Center South Redevelopment Co. v. United States · Bullock v. United States · Eisenstadt v. Baker
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is enough if the firearm is present for protection and to facilitate the likelihood of success, whether or not it is actually used.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[v]iewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the government, ample evidence existed for the jury to have concluded that the derringer was used by Smith 'for protection and to facilitate the likelihood of success.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that drug dealing is a dangerous and often violent enterprise[that] ... supports an inference that [a criminal defendant] ... carried the weapon to facilitate his 'business.'”
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.