Simpson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
July 2014
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Whitfield v. City of Paris · 5 Tex. Civ. App. 705 - Givens v. City of Paris · 72 Tex. Crim. 44 - Collins 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] conviction for an offense involving “official misconduct” is so far reaching in its consequences that the framers of our Constitution may well have considered the result and for that reason in their wisdom lodged jurisdiction to try such offenses in the District Court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Emerson v. State“[a]ny sheriff ... city marshal, chief of police, policeman, or any other officer having under arrest or in his custody any person as a prisoner who shall torture, torment or punish such person”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Emerson v. State“if he used force and abuse as testified to by [complainant] to compel him to [confess], there would be no difficulty in recognizing it as `official misconduct.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Emerson v. State
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.