Simon v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Kaeo v. Davis (1986), Johnson v. Commonwealth (1981)
62 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 Ashe v. Swenson · Brown v. Ohio · Harris v. Washington · Tierney Et Al. v. United States · Turner v. Arkansas
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[C]ollateral estoppel does not apply if it appears that the prior judgment could have been grounded `upon an issue other than that which the defendant seeks to foreclose from consideration'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]hen an issue of ultimate fact has once been determined by a valid and final judgment, that issue cannot again be litigated between the same parties in any future lawsuit.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Collateral estoppel becomes applicable only when the prior acquittal necessarily resolved the issue now in litigation”
2 later decisions 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.