United States v. Simpson’s Empirical Analysis
152 F.3d 1241 · 1998
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 8 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably United States v. Riccardi (2005), United States v. Dowlin (2005)
43 federal appellate · 8 district · 8 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2252
Relies on Illinois v. Gates · Johnson v. United States · Carnegie v. United States · Huddleston v. United States · Maryland v. Garrison
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“make a practical, common-sense decision whether, given all the circumstances set forth in the affidavit before him, including the `veracity' and `basis of knowledge' of persons supplying hearsay information, there is a fair probability that contraband or evidence of a crime will be found in a particular place.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We review the denial of a motion for continuance of trial for abuse of discretion and `will find error only if the district court's decision was arbitrary or unreasonable and materially prejudiced the defendant.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hen interpreting warrants, [the question is] practical accuracy rather than technical precision.”
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.