Simmons v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
302 F.2d 71 · 1962
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 8 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2022 · most notably Laird v. Tatum (1972), Smuck v. Hobson (1969)
45 federal appellate · 8 district · 6 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 18 U.S.C. § 3 · 18 U.S.C. § 6 · 28 U.S.C. § 144 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Mapp v. Ohio · Elkins v. United States · Hill v. United States · Sorrells v. United States · Adams v. United States Ex Rel. McCann
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whenever a party to any proceeding in a district court makes and files a timely and sufficient affidavit that the judge before whom the matter is pending has a personal bias or prejudice either against him or in favor of any adverse party, such judge shall proceed no further therein, but another judge shall be assigned to hear such proceeding.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In Sherman, the appellant submits that the Court held that the undisputed testimony of the prosecution’s witnesses established entrapment as a matter of law and that this is analogous to the instant case. Granting that Sherman so held, the analogy claimed by appellant fails for the reason that the prosecution’s witnesses in the instant case made out a prima facie case against the appellant and his testimony disputing their evidence properly raised questions of fact for the jury’s determination.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“there has been a deprivation of constitutional rights so fundamental as to amount to a denial of a fair trial”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reddick v. State
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.