United States v. Smith

How courts have described this case

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

• giving the House’s interpretation of its own rules controlling effect even though the interpretation was adopted after the plaintiff sued about the rule
• \[T]he Court must give great weight to [Congress's] ... construction of its own rules ....\
• “As the construction to be given the rules affects persons other than members of the Senate, the question presented is of necessity a judicial one.”
• “As the construction to be given the rules affects persons other than members of the Senate, the question presented is of necessity a judicial one.”
• “As the construction to be given to the rules affects persons other than members of the Senate, the question presented is of necessity a judicial one.”
• “ [W]e have, therefore, no occasion to consider the constitutional objection.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• United States v. Borden Co.
  Supreme Court· 1939-12-04· cited 757×
• Wheeldin v. Wheeler
  Supreme Court· 1963-06-03· cited 473×
• Guy Vander Jagt v. Thomas P. O'neill, Jr.
  D.C. Circuit· 1983-02-04· cited 186×
• Yellin v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1963-06-17· cited 153×
• Silva v. Hernández Agosto
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 1986-12-15· cited 134×
• John M. Bates v. Harold E. Sponberg
  Sixth Circuit· 1976-12-20· cited 103×
• Alan McSurely and Margaret McSurely v. John J. McClellan
  D.C. Circuit· 1976-12-21· cited 85×
• Gilbert v. Gladden
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1981-07-29· cited 75×
• Consumers Union of United States, Inc. v. Periodical Correspondents' Association, an Unincorporated Association
  D.C. Circuit· 1975-07-21· cited 51×
• Board of Trustees v. Attorney General of the Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2003-10-23· cited 50×
• Banco Popular de Puerto Rico v. Corte de Distrito de San Juan
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 1944-02-09· cited 50×
• Abood v. League of Women Voters of Alaska
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1987-09-29· cited 45×
• Noriega Rodríguez v. Jarabo
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 1994-06-24· cited 41×
• Malone v. Meekins
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1982-09-03· cited 36×
• Daniel Barker v. Patrick Conroy
  D.C. Circuit· 2019-04-19· cited 32×
• Acevedo Vilá v. Meléndez Ortiz
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 2005-06-07· cited 30×
• Des Moines Register & Tribune Co. v. Dwyer
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1996-01-17· cited 25×
• Dagmar Wilson v. United States of America, Donna Allen v. United States of America, Russell Nixon v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1966-08-02· cited 20×
• State Ex Rel. Johnson v. Hagemeister
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1955-12-16· cited 20×
• State ex rel. Richardson v. Board of Regents
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1953-10-01· cited 20×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Crawford v. Gilchrist
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1912-06-15· cited 94×
• United States v. Le Baron
  Supreme Court· 1856-12-16· cited 42×
• Attorney General ex rel. Dust v. Oakman
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1901-05-21· cited 24×
• People ex rel. MacMahon v. Davis
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1918-06-20· cited 22×
• Wood v. Cutter
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1884-11-17· cited 20×