United States v. Simpson’s Empirical Analysis
904 F.2d 607 · 1990
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably United States v. Church (1992), United States v. Steiger (2003)
14 federal appellate · 11 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2252
Relies on Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Sedillo v. United States · United States v. Jacobsen · Washington v. Washington State Commercial Passenger Fishing Vessel Ass'n · 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“did not exceed the scope of the prior private searches for Fourth Amendment purposes simply because they took more time and were more thorough”
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.