United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
982 F.2d 681 · 1993
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably United States v. Sepulveda (1993), United States v. Henderson (2003)
35 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 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. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on Berger v. United States · United States v. Young · American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States · United States v. Hasting · Yagow 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The prejudice from the errant statements in the prosecutor's closing argument was mitigated somewhat by their context and ambiguity . . . . Viewed in context, these ambiguous statements were not so egregious that they seriously affected the fairness, integrity, or public reputation of judicial proceedings”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“it [is] not improper to urge the jury to evaluate the plausibility of the justification defense in light of the other evidence (and the lack thereof),”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is plainly improper for a prosecutor to imply reliance on knowledge or evidence not available to the jury.”
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.