United States v. Simms’s Empirical Analysis
285 F.3d 1098 · 2002
Citation profile
14 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2020
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
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Apprendi v. New Jersey · United States v. Dunnigan · Sutton v. United States · Daniels v. Lassalle · City News & Novelty, Inc. v. City of WauKesha
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the record left no doubt that the defendant's false testimony at trial was not the result of confusion, mistake, or faulty memory.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We review a district court's factual findings underlying an obstruction of justice enhancement for clear error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“had committed perjury on `some pretty critical issues'”
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.