Simons v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
541 F.2d 1351 · 1976
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently March 1993 · most notably United States v. One 56-Foot Motor Yacht Named the Tahuna (1983), Ivers v. United States (1978)
18 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Calero-Toledo v. Pearson Yacht Leasing Co. · United States v. Stowell · Simons v. United States · Wingo v. United States
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“and avoids all intermediate sales and alienations, even as to purchasers in good faith,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“had no claim of any interest in the automobile, legal or equitable”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“enforce against the government his after-acquired rights”
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.