People v. Simbolo’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently January 2021 · most notably People v. McKenna (1978), People v. Sepeda (1978)
51 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Alford v. United States · 166 Cal. App. 2d 334 - People v. Hurlburt · 67 Okla. Crim. 16 - Kizer v. State · White v. United States · Hazel v. United States
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[Wjide latitude should be allowed in the cross-examination of a prosecuting witness in a rape case, and . . . evidence of prior false accusations may be admitted as affecting the credibility of the prosecutrix.””
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.