Sims v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
607 F.2d 757 · 1979
Citation profile
14 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently February 2004
14 federal appellate ·
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. § 1708 · 18 U.S.C. § 3651 · 18 U.S.C. § 5010
Relies on Roberts v. United States · Manley v. United States · United States v. Fried · United States v. Fultz
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may impose any sentence which might originally have been imposed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When the Court suspends the imposition of sentence and places the defendant on probation, it is authorized, upon revocation of probation, to impose any sentence within the limits of statutory authority. Merely placing a defendant on probation is not a sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 3651 .”
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.