United States v. Simpson’s Empirical Analysis
10 F.3d 645 · 1993
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 26 U.S.C. § 5861 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on Horton v. California · Needler v. Valley National Bank of Arizona · Wright v. Wright · Scherl v. Fisher · Agency Holding Corp. v. Malley-Duff & Associates, Inc.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the incriminatory nature of the evidence must be immediately apparent to the officers.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[b]ecause of the close relationship between drugs and firearms in the narcotics trade, the plain view seizure of firearms as evidence of narcotics offenses has been supported even when firearms are not specifically named in the search warrant.”
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.