United States v. Simpson’s Empirical Analysis
910 F.2d 154 · 1990
Citation profile
65 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 133 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably United States v. Love (1998), United States v. Robinson (1992)
65 federal appellate · 7 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. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Terry v. Ohio · United States v. Mendenhall · Burks v. United States · United States v. Sokolow
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 133 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the most extraordinary of circumstances, where that discretion has been plainly abused.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“excite the jury to make a decision on the basis of a factor unrelated to the issues properly before it.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Trial judges are much closer to the pulse of a trial than ... [we] can ever be [and] 'broad discretion' is necessarily accorded to them.”
3 later decisions 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.