Simmons v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 2004
8 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 Midland Valley Railroad v. Hamilton · Brooke 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In Brooke v. State, 86 Ark. 364 , 111 S. W. 471 , the count had under review an ordinance of the city of Morrilton which made it a misdemeanor ‘for any person to appear in any public street in a drunken or intoxicated condition.’ In that case.the evidence showed that the defendant was drinking, and he showed some signs of the effect of strong drink, but he was attending to his own business in an orderly manner, and had not lost control of his faculties. The court held that the evidence was not sufficient to sustain the charge,- and we approved the following definition of ‘drunk’ taken from the Standard Dictionary: ‘Under the influence of intoxicating liquor to such an extent as to have lost the normal control of one’s bodily and mental faculties, and, commonly, to evince a disposition to violence, quarrelsomeness and -bestiality’ Some of the common effects of being under the influence of intoxicating liquor, or drunk, are there given, to-wit: ‘A disposition to violence, quarrelsomeness and bestiality.’ But these are by no means the only resrdts of exhibitions that may be included in the definition.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Walbert v. State“The word ‘highway,’ as used in this statute, was intended to embrace any road or thoroughfare used and traveled by the public, even though the same was not laid out by the county court and technically designated as a public road or highway. ‘Highway’ is used in its popular rather than its technical sense, and is synonymous with ‘road,’ which is ‘an open way of public passage for vehicles, persons, and animals.’ [Webster’s New International and Funk & Wagnall’s dictionaries.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Phillips v. Henson
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.