State v. Simkins’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

17 state decisions

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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Subject to K.S.A. 60-447 evidence that a person committed a crime or civil wrong on a specified occasion, is inadmissible to prove his or her disposition to commit crime or civil wrong as the basis for an inference that the person committed another crime or civil wrong on another specified occasion but, subject to K.S.A. 60-445 and 60-448 such evidence is admissible when relevant to prove some other material fact including motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity or absence of mistake or accident.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Moore · State v. Jenkins

2. “[n]o duty to instruct the jury on a lesser included offense... where the evidence as a whole, viewed in the light most favorable to the defendant, could not reasonably support a jury verdict on the lesser included offense.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Hayes

3. “The provocation, whether it be `sudden quarrel' or some other form of provocation, must be sufficient to cause an ordinary man [or woman] to lose control of his actions and his reason.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Hayes