Simpson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
272 F.2d 229 · 1959
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently August 2002
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 26 U.S.C. § 4411 · 26 U.S.C. § 4412 · 26 U.S.C. § 7302
Relies on United States v. Lane Motor Co. · Arthur T. Stanton v. Everett P. Larsh · United States v. Plymouth Coupe (1941) Serial No. 15051526 · United States v. Lane Motor Co.
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is established by United States v. Lane Motor Co., 344 U.S. 630 , 73 S.Ct. 459 , 97 L.Ed. 622 , affirming 10 Cir., 199 F.2d 495 , and United States v. Plymouth Coupe, 3 Cir., 182 F.2d 180 , that an automobile used only for the personal convenience of the owner as transportation to the site of the illicit operation is not subject to seizure. 272 F.2d at 231 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether the use of the car as established by the record [is] so connected with the allegedly illicit [activity] as to subject the car to forfeiture. Simpson, supra, 272 F.2d at 230 .”
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.