Simpson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 federal appellate ·

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is clear * * * that no trustworthy conclusion regarding the presence or absence of ‘epileptic equivalent’ could be reached in the context of this case without a thorough-going investigátion to determine whether defendant has, as he claimed, a history of blackouts with loss of memory. There is nothing in the record, however, indicating whether any such investigation was ever conducted on behalf of this indigent defendant of ‘borderline intelligence,’ either by court-appointed counsel, by St. Elizabeths Hospital, or by the Government.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Jackson v. United States