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Simmons v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1961

Citation profile

35
cited by 35 later decisions
2
states following
February 2010
most recently cited

35 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently February 2010 · most notably Leaks v. State (1999), Williams v. State (1976)

35 state decisions

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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. State · Vaughan v. State · Holder v. State · Moore v. State · Hughes 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Basically, the rule rests upon that spirit of fair play which, perhaps more than anything else, distinguishes Anglo-American law from the jurisprudence of other nations.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Williams v. State · Leaks v. State
  2. “Nothing should tempt him to appeal to prejudices, to pervert the testimony, or make statements to the jury which, whether true or not, have not been proved. The desire for success should never induce him to endeavor to obtain a verdict by arguments based on anything except the evidence in the case and the conclusions legitimately deducible from the law applicable to the same. To convict and punish a person through the influence of prejudice and caprice is as pernicious in its consequences as the escape of a guilty man. The forms of law should never be prostituted to such a purpose.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Leaks v. State

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.