Ex parte Simpson’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 1979
17 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 Drinkard v. State · Ex parte Riley · State v. Humphrey · State v. Kyle · Ex parte West
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.
““The mere recommendation by a grand jury to a trial court can certainly confer upon such court no jurisdiction to do anything or make any order in a case over which it has no jurisdiction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Daniels v. State““Grand juries, in cases like the present, can confer jurisdiction upon a court by returning an indictment, and in no other way.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Daniels 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.