Simmons v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1987
9 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 Wallace v. State · Brown v. State · Sims v. State · Mackey v. People · Hale 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * If from the evidence introduced, or from a lack of evidence, you entertain a reasonable doubt as to whether or not the defendant committed said offense, you should acquit the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Barwicks v. State“A doubt which is not suggested by or does not arise from the evidence is not a reasonable doubt, and should not be considered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Barwicks 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.