State v. Simonsen’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 2012 · most notably Bisbee v. Ruppert (1975), Tonka Tours, Inc. v. Chadima (1985)
30 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 O'Leary v. Wangensteen · Mayes v. Byers · Barlau v. Minneapolis-Moline Power Implement Co. · Christgau v. Woodlawn Cemetery Assn. · State v. Harris
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Positive testimony of unimpeached witnesses cannot be disregarded when there is no real basis in the evidence for a finding that such evidence is either improbable or inconsistent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Elmourabit
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.