Simpson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
721 F.3d 875 · 2013
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 5 district · 6 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2244 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Apprendi v. New Jersey · Harris v. United States · Schriro Director Arizona Department of Corrections v. Summerlin · Alleyne v. United States · Melvin Tyler v. Burl Cain Warden
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he decision [on retroactivity] is the Supreme Court's, not ours, to make. Unless the Justices themselves decide that Alleyne applies retroactively on collateral review, we cannot authorize a successive collateral attack....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In re Payne · People v. Barnes“Alleyne establishes a new rule of constitutional law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Barnes
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.