United States v. Simpson’s Empirical Analysis
979 F.2d 1282 · 1992
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2020 · most notably Dixon v. United States (2006), United States v. Delpit (1996)
48 federal appellate · 5 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. § 111 (Federal Judiciary Protection Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 3161 (§ 101 of the Speedy Trial Act of 1974) · 18 U.S.C. § 924
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Pereira v. United States · Missouri v. Hunter · United States v. Hasting · Nye & Nissen 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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whoever willfully causes an act to be done which if directly performed by him or another would be an offense against the United States, is punishable as a principal.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“one who aids and abets an offense 'is punishable as principal' ... and the acts of the principal become those of the aider and abetter as a matter of law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whoever, during and in relation to any crime of violence or drug trafficking crime (including a crime of violence or drug trafficking crime which provides for an enhanced punishment if committed by the use of a deadly or dangerous weapon or device) for which he may be prosecuted in a court of the United States, uses or carries a firearm, shall, in addition to the punishment provided for such crime ... be sentenced to imprisonment for five years....”
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.