Simons v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
452 F.2d 1110 · 1971
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably United States v. William L. Matheson, of the Will of Dorothy Gould Burns, Deceased, William L. Matheson, of the Will of Dorothy Gould Burns, Deceased v. United States (1976), Irina Gorbach v. Janet Reno (2000)
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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. § 507 · 28 U.S.C. § 547 · 8 U.S.C. § 1451 (§ 340 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Costello v. United States · United States v. Zucca · Bindczyck v. Finucane · Martina Theatre Corp. v. Schine Chain Theatres, Inc. · Patterson v. Ramsey
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he underlying philosophy of Bindczyck remains intact”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“. . . the court may relieve a party . . . from a final judgment . . . for the following reasons: . . . (3) fraud . . . (6) any other reason justifying relief . . . The motion shall be made within a reasonable time, and for reasons [of fraud] not more than four months after the judgment . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“proof against attacks for fraud or illegal procurement based on evidence outside the record, except through [a S 340(a) proceeding].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gorbach v. Reno
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.