United States v. Simpson’s Empirical Analysis
7 F.3d 813 · 1993
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably United States v. Canoy (1994), United States v. Bieri (1994)
33 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 3582 · 18 U.S.C. § 3661 (Drug and Alcohol Dependent Offenders Treatment Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 3742 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 991 · 28 U.S.C. § 994 · 7 U.S.C. § 2024
Relies on Solem v. Helm · Williams v. United States · Brewster v. Derwinski · Nicholas v. United States · Joseph 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The lower limit of the range for Criminal History Category I is set for a first offender with the lowest risk of recidivism. Therefore, a departure below the lower limit of the guideline range for Criminal History Category I on the basis of the adequacy of criminal history cannot be appropriate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he departure must be based on factual findings supported by the record.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“qualif[y] as aberrant behavior warranting a departure”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.