United States v. Simmonds’s Empirical Analysis
931 F.2d 685 · 1991
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently October 2022 · most notably United States v. Simmonds (1997), United States v. Lovett (1992)
26 federal appellate · 2 district · 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. § 111 (Federal Judiciary Protection Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 1791 · 18 U.S.C. § 3231 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on United States v. Young · United States v. Frady · Rideout v. United States · Hormel v. Helvering · United States v. Atkinson
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“so 'plain' [that] the trial judge and prosecutor were derelict in countenancing it, even absent the defendant's timely assistance in detecting it.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is difficult to 'fault a trial court for failing to rule on an issue that had not been presented to it'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“An error is plain if it is obvious or "otherwise seriously affect[s] the fairness, integrity or public reputation of [the] judicial proceedings.”
2 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.