Simmons v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
2 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably Belk v. Rosamond (1952), Anderson v. State (1934)
2 district · 28 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 Richburger v. State · Sanders v. State · Hemingway v. State · Starling v. State · State v. Owen
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... it is enough to say that it is immaterial that the acts of appellant ... may have involved another crime, since it is plain that what appellant did in the handling of that check was merely a means or an instrumentality fraudulently used by him to embezzle and convert to his own use the funds of his principal and which had been intrusted to him by virtue of his employment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * '* where the transactions are all of a series in a common and interrelated scheme or plan or system, devised and executed by the accused for the one end of embezzling from his employer, then all of the related transactions may be received in evidence. ‡ **”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Peke
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.