State v. Simpson’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently May 2009 · most notably State v. Covington (1976), State v. Abraham (1994)
75 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 State v. . Owenby · Withers v. . Lane · State v. . Woolard · State v. . Jones · State v. . Stiwinter
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It can make no difference in what way or manner or when the opinion of the judge is conveyed to the jury, whether di rectly or indirectly, by comment on the testimony of a witness, by arraying the evidence unequally in the charge, by unbalancing the contentions of the parties, by the choice of language in stating the contentions, or by the general tone and tenor of the trial. The statute forbids any intimation of his opinion in any form whatever, it being the- intent of the law to insure to each and every litigant a fair and impartial trial before the jury.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Davis · State v. Maready“inadvertence should be called to [the trial judge's]attention at some appropriate time before the case is given to the jury, so as to afford an opportunity of correction. Where this is done and no correction is made, the party is entitled to his exception on appeal.”
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.