United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
918 F.2d 1032 · 1990
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently January 2014
16 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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. § 1343 · 22 U.S.C. § 2751 (Arms Export Control Act) · 22 U.S.C. § 2778
Relies on Glasser v. United States · United States v. Frady · Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · Stirone v. United States · Richardson v. Marsh
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As long as the crime and the elements of the offense that sustain the conviction are fully and clearly set out in the indictment, the right to a grand jury is not normally violated by the fact that the indictment alleges more crimes or other means of committing the same crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“unless the claimed error went to the 'very essence of the case,' and was 'so plain [that] the trial judge and prosecutor were derelict in countenancing it, even absent the defendant's timely assistance in detecting it.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“narrowing the scope of an indictment ... by redaction[ ] does not offend the notice and review functions served by a grand jury's issuance of an indictment.”
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.