People v. Simeone’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently June 1989 · most notably 47 Cal. 2d 566 - People v. Riser (1956), 54 Cal. 2d 621 - People v. Gould (1960)
49 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 People v. Ferlin · People v. David · People v. Nakis · 14 Cal. 2d 693 - People v. Waller · People v. Gallagher
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.
“since the prosecution's case was based primarly on direct testimony of eye-witnesses and the circumstantial evidence was merely incidental and corroborative of the direct evidence.”
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.