Smith v. United States

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• providing that the Supreme Court has the discretion to refuse to hear a criminal case if the defendant has escaped from custody
• announcing that court considered it within its “dis- cretion to refuse to hear a criminal case in error, unless the convicted party, suing out the writ, is where he can be made to respond to any judgment we may render”
• dismissing fugitive's criminal appeal because he was not \where he [could] be made to respond to any judgment we may render\
• affirming dismissal of FOIA request related to criminal sentence appellant was evading by remaining in Panama
• giving a fugitive until the start of the next term to surrender or face dismissal
• removing case from docket upon discovery that petitioner had escaped from custody

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

200 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• United States v. Sharpe
  Supreme Court· 1985-03-20· cited 2,970×
• Beard v. Kindler
  Supreme Court· 2009-12-08· cited 599×
• Richard Joseph Lynn v. United States
  Eleventh Circuit· 2004-04-14· cited 540×
• Molinaro v. New Jersey
  Supreme Court· 1970-01-20· cited 536×
• Degen v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1996-06-10· cited 445×
• Ortega-Rodriguez v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1993-03-08· cited 401×
• Estelle v. Dorrough
  Supreme Court· 1975-04-14· cited 312×
• United States v. Campos-Serrano
  Supreme Court· 1971-12-20· cited 217×
• Allen v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1897-03-15· cited 153×
• Sally Conforte v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Joseph Conforte v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue
  Ninth Circuit· 1982-11-05· cited 138×
• Goeke v. Branch
  Supreme Court· 1995-03-20· cited 130×
• In Re Feit & Drexler, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 1985-04-12· cited 122×
• Couey v. Atkins
  Oregon Supreme Court· 2015-07-16· cited 118×
• Eisler v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1949-06-27· cited 117×
• Bohanan v. Nebraska
  Supreme Court· 1887-10-17· cited 109×
• Commonwealth v. Passaro
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-05-25· cited 94×
• United States v. Van Cauwenberghe
  Ninth Circuit· 1991-05-20· cited 94×
• National Union of Marine Cooks & Stewards v. Arnold
  Supreme Court· 1954-11-22· cited 89×
• Collazos v. United States
  Second Circuit· 2004-05-18· cited 77×
• In Re Ben Jean Prevot and Arielle Dominique Prevot, the Minor Children. Jean-Claude Prevot v. Debra Moseman Prevot
  Sixth Circuit· 1995-09-07· cited 70×