Simmons v. Whitaker’s Empirical Analysis
252 F.2d 224 · 1958
Citation profile
14 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 1983
14 federal appellate ·
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 Screws v. United States · United States v. Classic · Snowden v. Hughes · United States v. Cruikshank · Fay v. People of State of New York Bove
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(325 U.S. at page 105, 65 S.Ct. at page 1037.) “The Act so construed has a narrower range in all its applications than if it were interpreted in the manner urged by the government. * * * ” (325 U.S. at pages 108-109, 65 S.Ct. at page 1039.) “ * * * The fact that a prisoner is assaulted, injured, or even murdered by state officials does not necessarily mean that he is deprived of any right protected or secured by the Constitution or laws of the United States * * * The Fourteenth Amendment did not alter the basic relations between the States and the national government.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sharp v. Lucky
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.