United States v. Simon’s Empirical Analysis
995 F.2d 1236 · 1993
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Duckett v. Godinez (1995), United States v. Cross (2002)
27 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Anders v. California · Chapman v. State of California · Estelle v. McGuire · Sandstrom v. Montana · Mullaney v. Wilbur
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Trial error is harmless if it is highly probable that the error did not affect the judgment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'sure conviction that the error did not prejudice the defendant.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“disprov[e] every 'reasonable possibility of prejudice.'”
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.