United States v. Simpson’s Empirical Analysis
8 F.3d 546 · 1993
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably United States v. Gordon (2004), United States v. Mohammad (1995)
32 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Solem v. Helm · Carnegie v. United States · United States v. Tucker · Scharffe v. Perkins · Liegl v. Webb
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 amount of the loss sustained by any victim as a result of the offense, the financial resources of the defendant, the financial needs and earning ability of the defendant and the defendant's dependents, and such other factors as the court deems appropriate.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A defendant ... has a due process right to be sentenced on the basis of reliable information ... 'To succeed on a challenge to a sentence, a defendant must show that information before the court was inaccurate, and that the court relied on it.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he district court clearly considered the mandatory factors of financial resources, needs, and earning ability”
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.