Simpson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
786 federal appellate · 43 district · 346 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,454 later decisions (53 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably United States v. Ron Pair Enterprises, Inc. (1989), Taylor v. United States (1990)
786 federal appellate · 43 district · 346 state decisions — followed in 32 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States v. Beasley (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · North Carolina v. Pearce · Preiser v. Rodriguez · Brown v. Ohio · United States v. American Trucking Associations
Cited together with Blockburger v. United States · Busic v. United States · Whalen v. United States · Brown v. Ohio · Bell 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 1,454 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Whoever travels in interstate or foreign commerce or uses any facility in interstate or foreign commerce, including the mail, with intent to- il) distribute the proceeds of any unlawful activity; or ... (3) otherwise promote, manage, establish, carry on, or facilitate the promotion, management, establishment, or carrying on, of any unlawful activity, and thereafter performs or attempts to perform any of the acts specified in subparagraphs (1), (2), and (3), shall be fined not more than $10,-000 or imprisoned for not more than five years, or both. (b) As used in this section “unlawful activity” means (1) any business enterprise involving gambling, ... narcotics .... or prostitution-offenses in violation of the laws of the State in which they are committed or of the United States, or (2) extortion, bribery, or arson in violation of the laws of the State in which committed or of the United States.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The applicable rule is that where the same act or transaction constitutes a violation of two distinct statutory provisions, the test to be applied to determine whether there are two offenses or only one, is whether each provision requires proof of an additional fact which the other does not.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Whoever— (1) uses a firearm to commit any felony for which he may be prosecuted in a court of the United States.... shall, in addition to the punishment provided for the commission of such felony, be sentenced to a term of imprisonment for not less than one year nor more than ten years. In the case of his second or subsequent conviction under this subsection, such person shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment for not less than two nor more than twenty-five years and, notwithstanding any other provision of law, the court shall not suspend the sentence in the case of a second or subsequent conviction of such person or give him a probationary sentence, nor shall the term of imprisonment imposed under this subsection run concurrently with any term of imprisonment imposed for the commission of such felony.””
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.