United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
929 F.2d 1453 · 1991
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably United States v. Greenwood (1992), United States v. Green (2005)
24 federal appellate · 1 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. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 3562 · 18 U.S.C. § 3564 · 18 U.S.C. § 3582 · 18 U.S.C. § 3661 (Drug and Alcohol Dependent Offenders Treatment Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 3742 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 561
Relies on North Carolina v. Pearce · Hill v. United States · United States v. DiFrancesco · Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Newman Oil Co. · Lane v. Peterson
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n the Commentary to [ 1B1.3] is the statement that in a drug distribution case, quantities and types of drugs not specified in the charge with which defendant stands convicted are to be included in determining the base offense level if they were part of the same course of conduct or part of a common scheme or plan as the count of conviction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“may correct an illegal sentence at any time " (emphasis added). Rule 35 was amended again, effective December 1, 1991, so as to allow a trial court to correct arithmetical, technical, or "clear”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.