United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
944 F.2d 618 · 1991
Citation profile
132 federal appellate · 4 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 193 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Ratliff v. United States (1993), United States v. Sarno (1995)
132 federal appellate · 4 district · 7 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
Relies on Bearden v. Georgia · Hughey v. United States · Johnson v. Righetti · Rosenberg v. Comerica Bank · Austin Products Co. v. Workers' Compensation Insurers Rating Association of Minnesota
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 193 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“less the value (as of the date the property is returned) of any part of the property that is returned.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“'that the district judge had at his disposal information bearing on the considerations enumerated in section 3664.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“financial needs and earning ability of ... the defendant's dependents”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.