United States v. Simpson’s Empirical Analysis
538 F.3d 459 · 2008
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2024
5 federal appellate · 2 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. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 3663A (§ 204 of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on United States v. Leahy · United States v. Allen Landerman · United States v. Sosebee · United States v. Izydore · United States v. Triana
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It cannot be ... that a crime [of insurance fraud] spanning several years ... is not very serious merely because none of the employer's workers happened to get hurt.”); United States v. Butler, 970 F.2d 1017 , 1030 (2d Cir.1992) (Newman, J., concurring) (”
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.