Simpson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably 269 Ga. App. 619 - Phillips v. State (2004), 278 Ga. App. 574 - Abernathy v. State (2006)
61 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 Phagan v. State · Spear v. State · Caldwell v. State · 194 Ga. App. 305 - Stamey v. State · 176 Ga. App. 96 - Tyler v. State
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a prosecution for a sexual offense, evidence of sexual paraphernalia found in defendant’s possession is inadmissible unless it shows defendant’s lustful disposition toward the sexual activity with which he is charged or his bent of mind to engage in that activity. Under this rule, sexually explicit material cannot be introduced merely to show a defendant’s interest in sexual activity. It can only be admitted if it can be linked to the crime charged.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage“In a prosecution for a sexual offense, what limits should be placed on the admissibility of physical evidence of a sexual nature, such as writings, drawings, photographs, or paraphernalia connected with the defendant, and for what purposes should such evidence be admitted?”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bunger“interest in sexual activity does not necessarily point to deviant behavior, even cireumstantially[ ]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mersereau v. State
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.