Simon v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
123 F.2d 80 · 1941
Citation profile
119 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 147 later decisions — most recently July 2005 · most notably United States v. Rosenberg (1952), United States v. Parodi (1983)
119 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 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
Relies on Matheson v. United States · United States v. Buckner · Coulston v. United States · Glover v. United States · Tla-Koo-Yel-Lee 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 147 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to see that justice is done in the cases heard before him.”
28 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`The rule is that for the purpose of impeaching the credibility of a witness he may be questioned as to misconduct, even as to collateral matters, which has a tendency to show his lack of honesty or truthfulness; the qualification of the rule being that the party questioning him is bound by his answers and may not contradict him with regard thereto.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ ‘ * * * a witness may not be asked if he has been accused or ax'rested for a crime, for the sufficient reason that it calls for hearsay evidence, and because accusation carries no implication of guilt. [Citations omitted.]’ ””
2 later decisions 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.