People v. Simons’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 1984
2 federal appellate · 18 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 People v. . Persce · Williams v. State · State v. Casto · Mitchell v. State · Redus v. State
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a broken and inefficient pistol be drawn and pointed at another in a quarrel this production of it to make a hostile demonstration violates the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fournier v. LeFevre“with intent to use the same unlawfully against another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fournier v. LeFevre
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.