Simon v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 2013
8 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Illinois Power Co. v. Local Union No. 51, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers · Turner v. Louisiana · New Yorker Magazine, Inc. v. Gerosa · Pierson v. Ray · National Theatres Corp. v. Bertha Building Corp.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In our opinion one who, at the time of entering a plea of guilty, is not aware of tlie fact (hat lie will not be eligible for probation or parole does not plead with understanding of the consequences of such a plea.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“was anxious to go to the hospital, [and] wanted to plead guilty as soon as possible.” When the court imposed the ten-year mandatory sentence, it noted”
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.