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← 151 Fla. 778 - Simmons v. State

Simmons v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1942

Citation profile

95
cited by 95 later decisions
1
states following
September 2006
most recently cited

95 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently September 2006 · most notably 403 So. 2d 956 - Ray v. State (1981), Borges v. State (1982)

95 state decisions

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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 Commonwealth v. Murphy · Mills v. State · Smith v. State · State of Fla. Ex Rel Lanz v. Dowling

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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “`within the category of crimes in which, on grounds of public policy, certain acts are made punishable without proof that the defendant understands the facts that give character to his act ... and proof of an intent is not indispensable to conviction.'”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Hodge v. State · 701 So. 2d 1181 - Grady v. State
  2. ““We are of the opinion that this law [allowing sentences to be served concurrently for conviction of two or more offenses in the same indictment or information] does not apply where, as here, the counts present different aspects of a single criminal transaction as distinguished from counts, in an indictment, charging kindred crimes.” (Emphasis supplied.)”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 237 So. 2d 253 - Parker v. State · 332 So. 2d 157 - Booth v. State
  3. “for the purpose of protecting the virginity of young maidens.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 443 So. 2d 178 - Lanier v. State · 659 So. 2d 256 - BB 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.