Simpson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Buchanan v. Commonwealth (1989), Correll v. Commonwealth (1987)
79 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 Akers v. Commonwealth · Pierce v. Commonwealth · Ortiz v. Barrett · Doe v. Thomas · Goins v. Commonwealth
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an expert to base his opinion on facts made known or perceived by him at or before trial, whether admissible in themselves or not, provided they are facts of a type normally relied on by other experts in the field,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“On cross-examination, Dr. Massello [the expert witness] admitted that his opinion was based upon his observations at the autopsy, which he conducted personally; his medical experience and training; the medical examiner’s investigative report of death, which was in evidence; and the records of St. Paul Hospital, which were not in evidence. Simpson moved to strike the opinion, which was the only evidence relating Tabron’s [the victim’s] death to the crime, because of its partial reliance upon the hospital records.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[b]ased entirely upon his personal observations”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sanders v. Com.
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.