Simpson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
376 F.3d 679 · 2004
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably United States v. Duncan (2005), United States v. Price (2005)
17 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 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 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Apprendi v. New Jersey · Blakely v. Washington · Beard Secretary Pennsylvania Department of Corrections et al. v. Banks · United States v. Booker · United States of America v. Ignasio Maldenaldo Sanchez
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“before Blakely was decided, every federal court of appeals had held that Apprendi did not apply to guideline calculations made within the statutory maximum”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Gomez · State v. Smart“every federal court of appeals [that had previously] held that Apprendi did not apply to guideline calculations made within the statutory maximum.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Walker v. State“Itlhe Supreme Court has not made the Blakely rule applicable to cases on collateral review”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Smart
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.