State v. Simms’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
95 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently November 2020 · most notably Willow Springs Condominium Ass'n v. Seventh BRT Development Corp. (1998), Persico v. Maher (1983)
95 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 Malloy v. Hogan · Washington v. Texas · Kastigar v. United States · Hoffman v. United States · State v. Evans
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.
“perfectly clear , from a careful consideration of all the circumstances in the case, that the witness is mistaken, and that the answer[s] cannot possibly have [a] tendency' to incriminate.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the accused's right *Page 506 to compel testimony must give way to the witness' privilege against self-incrimination. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to secure testimony from a recalcitrant witness for the benefit of the prosecution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.