United States v. Simpson’s Empirical Analysis
439 F.3d 490 · 2006
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 6 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2020 · most notably Utah v. Strieff (2016), 195 L. Ed. 2d 400 - Utah v. Strieff (2016)
15 federal appellate · 6 district · 30 state decisions — followed in 16 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.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on United States v. Booker · Wong Sun v. United States · Brown v. Illinois · Illinois v. Wardlow · California v. Hodari D.
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[P]urposeful and flagrant misconduct is generally found where: '(1) the impropriety of the official's misconduct was obvious or the official knew, at the time, that his conduct was likely unconstitutional but engaged in it nevertheless; and (2) the misconduct was investigatory in design and purpose and executed”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where the discovery of an arrest warrant constitutes the intervening circumstance, `it is an even more compelling case for the conclusion that the taint of the original illegality is dissipated.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'extraordinary intervening circumstance.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Utah v. Strieff · State v. Strieff
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.