Simmons v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2000
2 federal appellate · 6 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 Franz Ex Rel. Simmons 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an exceptional job in examining and exploring [Simmons'] capacity to understand the choice between life and death and his ability to know and to intelligently waive any and all right he might have in an appeal of his sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Whitmore v. Arkansas“had 'the capacity to understand the choice between life and death and to knowingly and intelligently waive any and all rights to appeal his sentence.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“thoroughly discussed seven possible points that could be argued for reversal on appeal”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Whitmore v. Arkansas
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.