United States v. Simmons’s Empirical Analysis
725 F.2d 641 · 1984
Citation profile
28 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably United States of America v. Ignasio Maldenaldo Sanchez (2001), United States v. Ocampo (1989)
28 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 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Bonner v. City of Prichard · Berger v. United States · S.S. Zoe Colocotroni v. Puerto Rico · Ingram v. United States · United States v. Malatesta
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.
“[A]ny person who violates subsection (a) of this section shall be sentenced as follows: (B) In the case of a violation of subsection (a) of this section involving— (iii) 5 grams or more of a mixture or substance described in clause (ii) which contains cocaine base; such person shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment which may not be less than 5 years and not more than 40 years.... 1”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The statute makes it a crime for a person to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance . . . . [T]he crime can be proved without any consideration of the amount involved . . . .”
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.