United States v. Simon’s Empirical Analysis
409 F.2d 474 · 1969
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably City of Columbus v. Fraley (1975), United States v. Grimes (1969)
28 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 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. § 111 (Federal Judiciary Protection Act of 2002) · 26 U.S.C. § 7607
Relies on Wong Sun v. United States · Carroll v. United States · Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · Jones v. United States
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As an additional ground for sustaining Simon’s conviction, the government argues that even if the arrest was unlawful, Simon had no right to resist the arrest as he did. We think this argument has merit, and that the consequences of accepting defendant’s argument to the contrary would lead to great mischief with respect to encouraging resistance to, and to endangering, arresting officers. We recognize that law enforcement officers are frequently called on to make arrests without warrants and should not be held, so far as their personal security is concerned, to a nicety of distinctions between probable cause and lack of prob able cause in differing situations of warrantless arrests. It is for this reason we believe that the force of John Bad Elk has been diminished.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.