United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
972 F.2d 960 · 1992
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 2015
10 federal appellate · 1 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. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 3563 · 18 U.S.C. § 3651 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Skinner v. State of Oklahoma Williamson · United States v. Terrigno · United States v. Tolla · United States v. Schoenrock
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reasonably related to ... the nature and circumstances of the offense and the history and characteristics of the defendant, and [to] ... the need ... to afford adequate deterrence to criminal conduct, to protect the public from further crimes of the defendant, and to provide the defendant with needed educational or vocational training, medical care, or other correctional treatment in the most effective manner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[C]onditions that restrict a probationer's freedom must be especially fine tuned.”
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.