State v. Simmons’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently June 2007 · most notably State v. Stephens (1956), State v. Jones (1981)
81 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 Tysinger v. Coble Dairy Products · State v. . Harvey · State v. . Johnson · State v. . Boyd · Creech v. Sun Life Assurance
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In this connection, it is settled law in this State that in passing upon a motion for judgment as of nonsuit in criminal prosecutions, the evidence must be considered in the light most favorable to the State, and it is entitled to every reasonable intendment upon the evidence and every reasonable inference to be drawn therefrom, and if there be any competent evidence to support the charge in the warrant, the case is one for the jury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Haddock · State v. Lyles
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.