Simmons v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

26 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In determining whether non-accomplice evidence tends to connect a defendant to the offense, ... 'the evidence must simply link the accused in some way to the commission of the crime and show that rational jurors could conclude that this evidence sufficiently tended to connect [the accused] to the offense.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Reed v. State · State v. KEW

2. “if the circumstances lead toward, or tend toward, the defendant as the party who committed the offense, and show the truth of the prosecutrix, this would be all the law required”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. KEW

3. “[t]o stretch, extend, direct one's course; to be directed as to any end, object or purpose; to aim; to have or give a leaning”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. KEW