Simpson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1833
Citation profile
1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2024
1 district · 1 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.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an express power ... secured to all the free citizens of the state to keep and bear arms for their defence, without any qualification whatever as to their kind or nature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Young v. Hawaii“that our ancestors adopted and brought over with them [the Statute of Northampton], or [a] portion of the common law,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“in a warlike manner ... and to the great terror and disturbance of ... good citizens.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.