United States v. Simmons’s Empirical Analysis
670 F.2d 365 · 1982
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably United States v. Jackson (1991), United States v. Blackwell (1982)
27 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 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 Washington v. Texas · Webb v. Texas · United States v. Claude L. Smith, United States of America v. James P. Jarvis · People v. Pena
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is hardly a threat for a prosecutor to advise a potential witness, who is telling two stories with respect to a defendant's criminal involvement, that he might be prosecuted for perjury if he testifies falsely.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he right of a defendant to establish a defense by presenting his own witnesses is a fundamental element of due process of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[a] prosecutor may impeach a witness in court but he may not intimidate him--in or out of court.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.