Simmons v. McDaniel’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 2020
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 15 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 Valdez v. Herrera · City of Albuquerque v. Garcia · Bardacke v. Dunigan · Koran v. White
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A signature shall be counted on a nominating petition unless there is evidence presented that the person signing: (1) is not a voter of the state, district, county or area to be represented by the office for which the person seeking the nomination is a candidate; (2) has signed more than one petition for the same office, except as provided in Subsection A of this section, or has signed one petition more than once; (3) is not of the same political party as the candidate named in the nominating petition as shown by the signer’s affidavit of registration; or (4) is not the person whose name appears on the nominating petition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.