United States v. Simmons’s Empirical Analysis
503 F.2d 831 · 1974
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably United States v. Evans (1978), United States v. Gordon (1986)
41 federal appellate · 3 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. § 1014
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Lutwak v. United States · United States v. Warner · Kay v. United States · United States v. Goodwin
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order to meet its burden of proof, in any prosecution pursuant to Title 18, U.S.C. Sec. 1014 , the government must show (1) that a statement has been supplied by the defendant to a specified lending institution which is capable of influencing the institution’s decision to loan funds, and (2) that the statement is knowingly false, [emphasis added] 13”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the essential physical elements of the offense charged, and (the) physical elements, but not necessarily the mental element of the offense, are clearly shown by competent evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“If a witness is subject to indictment as a principal or accessory to the offense for which the defendant is charged, he is an accomplice.”
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.