Simmons v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently August 2006 · most notably 492 So. 2d 1281 - Watts v. State (1986), 410 So. 2d 224 - State v. Taylor (1982)
30 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 Lamar v. State · Boutwell v. State · Johnson v. State · Cox v. State · McNeal 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Deceased was lying in road at the scene of the tragedy, and two witnesses for the State testified he said to them, `They hit me with the binders, they pushed me off the truck.' Neither witness claimed that deceased made any statement indicating on his part that he knew or believed death was then and there imminent and impending. One witness said that he, himself, knew it and that the dying man should have known it. That is not the test. The true test is that `at the time the declaration was made, the deceased believed that he was going to die and had no hope whatever of recovery, and must be made under the realization and solemn sense of impending death.' Syllabus McNeal v. State, 115 Miss. 678 , 76 So. 625 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“reasonable doubt must be of the type that you can give a reason for when you get back in the jury room and discuss the matter... .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Isaacks v. State“Reasonable doubt defines itself; it therefore needs no definition by the court.”
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.