Simms v. People’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably People v. Dement (1983), People v. Pearson (1976)
52 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 Archina v. People · Jordan v. People · Brown v. People · Battalino v. People · Silva v. People
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is no provision in the Rule for the trial judge to exercise his discretion .... While this Court feels that in a proper case the trial judge may properly exercise his discretion and grant a peremptory challenge, it was not an abuse of discretion for the trial judge in the instant case to refuse to do so.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Reese“I think the evidence has clearly shown ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.