United States v. Simpson’s Empirical Analysis
430 F.3d 1177 · 2005
Citation profile
69 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably United States v. Smith (2006), United States v. Rattoballi (2006)
69 federal appellate · 1 district · 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. Booker · Apprendi v. New Jersey · Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Chapman v. State of California · United States v. Olano
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“specifically refer to each [section 3553(a)] factor”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In some circumstances, an alternative sentence can render a Booker error harmless. Or perhaps more precisely, an alternative sentence can demonstrate that the district court’s imposition of sentence involved no error at all, because in one of the alternatives, the sentence was imposed consistent with Booker.” (citation omitted)); United States v. Hill, 411 F.3d 425 , 426 (3d. Cir.2005) (holding that where”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“If the Guidelines as currently written could be read as merely advisory provisions that recommended, rather than required, the selection of particular sentences in response to differing sets of facts, their use would not implicate the Sixth Amendment”
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.