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.

• construing section 14(b) of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, 29 U.S.C. § 633(b) (1982), which, as the Supreme Court explained in Oscar Mayer & Co. v. Evans, 441 U.S. 750, 755, 99 S.Ct. 2066, 2071, 60 L.Ed.2d 609 (1979), is patterned after and virtually identical to section 706(c)
• arbitrator’s award reinstating Postal Service employee who had participated in strike vacated because of statute prohibiting employment of individuals who had participated in strikes
• even if evidence in question was improperly seized, its admission constituted harmless error beyond a reasonable doubt because the evidence was cumulative at best
• even if police improperly seized the evidence in question, the nature of the evidence was cumulative at best and its admission constituted harmless error beyond a reasonable doubt
• lack of special addict instruction did not prejudice the defendant, because general credibility instruction and special instructions regarding accomplice, informant, and felon testimony were sufficient to alert jury to credibility problems with addict-informer’s testimony
• in Title VII cases “inquiry for purposes of determining when the limitations period begins to run must center on the date when the employee has notice of the unlawful act”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• United States v. Joseph C. Gallo Frederick Graewe Hartmut Graewe, Kevin Joseph McTaggart Angelo A. Lonardo
  Sixth Circuit· 1985-05-29· cited 326×
• United States v. Frank Peter Balistrieri, Steve Disalvo, and Dennis Librizzi, Defendants
  Seventh Circuit· 1985-11-26· cited 284×
• Stead Motors of Walnut Creek v. Automotive MacHinists Lodge No. 1173, International Association of MacHinists and Aerospace Workers
  Ninth Circuit· 1989-10-06· cited 221×
• Republic of Nicaragua, a Foreign Sovereign v. Standard Fruit Company, Standard Fruit and Steamship Company, and Castle & Cooke, Inc.
  Ninth Circuit· 1991-07-01· cited 176×
• George Day Construction Co., Inc. v. United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, Local 354
  Ninth Circuit· 1984-01-04· cited 167×
• United States v. Rush
  First Circuit· 1984-06-27· cited 140×
• United States v. Ernest Lopez, United States of America v. John Vlahovich, United States of America v. Paula Nadir
  Ninth Circuit· 1986-10-30· cited 137×
• United States v. Wendall Nicholson
  Tenth Circuit· 1993-01-05· cited 120×
• Sheet Metal Workers International Association Local Union 420 v. Kinney Air Conditioning Co.
  Ninth Circuit· 1985-03-28· cited 119×
• United States v. Ronald Olen Burrows
  Ninth Circuit· 1994-09-29· cited 117×
• United States v. Terry Gene Carter
  Eighth Circuit· 1989-08-31· cited 114×
• Biggs v. Wilson
  Ninth Circuit· 1993-08-12· cited 112×
• United States v. Lee
  Eighth Circuit· 1984-09-12· cited 107×
• Local 900, International Union of Electrical, Radio and MacHine Workers, Afl-Cio v. National Labor Relations Board
  D.C. Circuit· 1984-02-10· cited 98×
• Frank HERMAN and Frank Mullaney, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. NATIONAL BROADCASTING COMPANY, INC., Defendant-Appellee
  Seventh Circuit· 1984-10-29· cited 96×
• United States v. Sammy Don McGhee
  Sixth Circuit· 1989-08-18· cited 94×
• Cynthia Gilardi v. Gary Schroeder, D/B/A Gary Schroeder Trucking
  Seventh Circuit· 1987-11-04· cited 87×
• United States v. Toney Anthony Gladney, United States of America v. Chester Earl Smith
  Eighth Circuit· 1995-04-06· cited 87×
• Marcia E. Stearns v. Consolidated Management, Inc.
  Seventh Circuit· 1984-09-28· cited 84×
• United States v. Marvin J. Zylstra
  Seventh Circuit· 1983-08-09· cited 83×