State v. Simpson’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently June 1984 · most notably State v. Johnson (1966), 438 So. 2d 1091 - State v. Johnson (1983)
51 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. Green · State v. Barksdale · State v. Dallao · State v. Thornhill · State v. Henry
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well settled in the jurisprudence that where a witness for the defendant testifies as to his good character and reputation, the witness may be questioned as to particular facts and as to previous arrests of the accused on whose behalf he is testifying. State v. Powell, 213 La. 811 , 35 So.2d 741 ; see State v. Thornhill, 188 La. 762 , 178 So. 343 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Daniels
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.