United States v. Simpson’s Empirical Analysis
337 F.3d 905 · 2003
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently July 2022
10 federal appellate · 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 United States v. Koliboski · United States v. Hook · United States v. Nelson · United States v. Briggs · United States of America, v. Brian K. McMutuary and Dante A. Grier,
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.
“Comments made by a trial judge during closing argument can only warrant reversal if it appears that the judge's conduct was clearly prejudicial to the rights of the party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“actually creates a disparity between the length of the appellant defendant's sentence and all other similar sentences imposed nationwide.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a disparity among co-defendants' sentences is not a valid basis to challenge a guideline sentence otherwise correctly calculated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.