Simmons v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

348 federal appellate · 24 district · 20 state decisions

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

1. ““The Government’s argument that no prejudice was shown and none resulted can be readily disposed of. . . . This is not an incidental infringement of technical rights. Petitioner has been deprived of the fair hearing required by the Act, a fundamental safeguard, and he need not specify the precise manner in which he would have used this right — and how such use would have aided his cause — in order to complain of the deprivation.” Id. at 405-406, 75 S.Ct. at 402 .”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Rundle · United States v. Fisher

2. ““ * * * We think the Department of Justice satisfies its duties under § 6(j) when it accords a fair opportunity to the registrant to speak his piece before an impartial hearing officer; when it permits him to produce all relevant evidence in his own behalf and at the same time supplies him with a fair résumé of any adverse evidence in the investigator’s report.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Manke v. United States · United States v. DeRemer

3. “on the level of a game of blindman's buff.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Moore-Mccormack Lines, Inc. v. The United States. American President Lines, Ltd. v. The United States. Delta Steamship Lines, Inc. v. The United States. American Export Isbrandtsen Lines, Inc. v. The United States