United States v. Simpson’s Empirical Analysis
481 F.2d 582 · 1973
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently September 1990 · most notably United States v. Kinsey (1988), United States v. Rich (1975)
19 federal appellate · 5 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3651 · 18 U.S.C. § 401 · 18 U.S.C. § 4201 · 18 U.S.C. § 5005 · 21 U.S.C. § 801 (§ 101 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Weems v. United States · United States v. Lopez · United States v. Scales
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]ny person who violates [ 21 U.S.C. § 841 (a) ] shall be sentenced as follows---- In the case of a controlled substance in schedule I or II which is a narcotic drug, such person shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not more than 15 years, a fine of not more than $25,000, or both____ Any sentence imposing a term of imprisonment under this paragraph shall, in the absence of such a prior conviction, impose a special parole term of at least 3 years in addition to such term of imprisonment____”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is beyond constitutional doubt that Congress has the inherent power to adopt penal and rehabilitative provisions in response to the present pervasive drug traffic problem.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“precept of justice that punishment for crime should be graduated and proportioned to (the) offense.”
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.