United States v. Simmons’s Empirical Analysis
281 F.2d 354 · 1960
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently March 2008 · most notably United States v. McCaskill (1982), United States v. Cardillo (1963)
29 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Jencks v. United States · Palermo v. United States · Delli Paoli v. United States · Costello v. United States · Abel 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * No motion was made, however, at this time to have these notes produced; thus defendant cannot now contend that the fact that he did not receive them constitutes reversible error. * * * But the denial of Coppola’s motion should not give Simmons standing to complain on this appeal that the denial prejudiced him. And even if Simmons does have such a standing we would have to hold the denial proper * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Defendant was the driver of the escape car the robbers used. He contends that as he did not enter the bank with his fellows he should not have been convicted of having participated in the robbery. This claim is, of course, entirely without substance. See 18 U.S.C. § 2 .””
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.