United States v. Simon Edward Heath and Paul Sau-Ki Cheng’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably United States v. Brandon (1994), United States v. Kimbrough (1995)
48 federal appellate · 8 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. § 1006 · 18 U.S.C. § 1344 · 18 U.S.C. § 657
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Allen v. United States · Palmer v. Hoffman · Santoni v. United States · Kungys 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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“integrally related; one could not have succeeded without the other”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Indeed, juries are free to use their common sense and apply common knowledge, observation, and experience gained in the ordinary affairs of life when giving affect to the inferences that may reasonably be drawn from the evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] concealment or misrepresentation is material `if it has a natural tendency to influence, or was capable of influencing, the decision of' the decisionmaker to which it was addressed.”
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.