Simond v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently September 2000 · most notably Nelson v. Seiler (1927), Coblentz v. State (1933)
37 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 Lawrence v. State · Lanasa v. State · Bloomer v. State · Garlitz v. State · 5 H. & J. 317 - State v. Buchanan
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although this Court said in Smith v. State, 64 Md. 25 [ 20 A. 1026 ], that a witness could be asked whether he had ever been confined in jail, and in McLaughlin v. Mencke, 80 Md. 83 [ 30 A. 603 ], whether he had been in jail and for what, it would be certainly carrying the rule to its limit to ask a witness if he had been arrested ten years before for being drunk and sent to jail. The object of such testimony is to reflect upon the credibility of the witness....”
1 later decision 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.