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United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

973 F.2d 603 · 1992

Citation profile

28
cited by 28 later decisions
4
states following
August 2017
most recently cited

19 federal appellate · 4 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably United States v. Lopez-Moreno (2005), United States v. Gilmore (2002)

19 federal appellate · 4 state decisions

170199220002010decided

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. § 2113

Relies on Gregory Lumber Co. v. United States · Morrison v. Olson · Federal Energy Regulatory Commission v. Martin Exploration Management Co. · United States v. Higdon · United States v. Alsop

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.

  1. “, was moving around, and at one point put his elbows up on either side of the window and leaned very close to the teller so that no more than a foot separated himself and the teller. Id. at 603-04. Smith was also wearing a fanny pack which the teller feared may contain a weapon. Id. at 604. The teller stated that he was scared not only for himself, but also for the others in the bank. Id. This court concluded that the evidence was sufficient to establish the intimidation element under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a). Id. at 605. 37”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “Whether the defendant's actions did induce fear in an individual victim is not conclusive, but is probative of whether his acts were objectively intimidating.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “Intimidation is conduct reasonably calculated to put another in fear ... [measured objectively by] an ordinary, reasonable person [standard].”
    1 later decision 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.