United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
924 F.2d 889 · 1991
Citation profile
204 federal appellate · 3 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 336 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably United States v. Paladino (2005), Sanchez v. United States (1995)
204 federal appellate · 3 district · 9 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) · 21 U.S.C. § 843 (§ 403 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Mahan & Rowsey, Inc. v. Oklahoma Natural Gas · Pelaes v. United States · Hampton v. United States · United States v. Owens · Walker v. United States
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 336 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“so grossly shocking and so outrageous as to violate the universal sense of justice.”
30 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“repugnant to the American system of justice.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a defendant must meet an extremely high standard,”
13 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.