Simmons v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 2004 · most notably Waller v. State (1983), 159 Ga. App. 356 - Davis v. State (1981)
27 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 Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · Wiener v. California · State of Georgia v. Thoni Oil Magic Benzol Gas Stations, Inc. · 130 Ga. App. 469 - Butler 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where hearsay such as an informer’s tip is relied upon for probable cause, the sworn information placed before the justice of the peace must adequately set forth (1) the '”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“probable cause may be established not only by the contents of the affidavit but also by sworn oral testimony given the magistrate ...”
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.