Simmons v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably State v. Parker (1985), Pawloski v. State (1978)
52 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 Caudill v. State · State v. Griffin · Short v. State · Carrier v. State · Ralph L. Shirmeyer, Inc. v. Indiana Revenue Board
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Dwelling” has been defined as: The house or other structure in which a person or persons live; a residence; abode; habitation; the apartment or building, or group of buildings, occupied by a family as a place of residence. Structure used as place of habitation. In conveyancing, includes all buildings attached to or connected with the house. In criminal law (e.g. burglary), means a building or portion thereof, a tent, a vehicle or other enclosed space which is used or intended for use as a human habitation, home or residence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The clear intent of the legislature as evidenced by [the predecessor to I.C. XX-XX-X-X] was to protect a man's home or place of habitation.”
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.