United States v. Simpson’s Empirical Analysis
950 F.2d 1519 · 1991
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably United States v. Welch (2003), United States v. Davis (1995)
23 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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. § 1343 · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 656
Relies on Sandstrom v. Montana · Remmer v. United States · McNally v. United States · Bullock v. United States · Truong Dinh Hung v. United States
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he inquiry is whether there exists a reasonable possibility that the external influence or information affected the jury”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a person intends the natural and probable consequences of acts knowingly done or knowingly omitted.”
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.