State v. Simpson’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably State v. Sturdivant (1981), State v. Downing (1985)
3 federal appellate · 22 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 Indiana Employment Security Division v. Burney · State v. Tolley · State v. Britt · State v. McNeil · State v. Bailey
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] valid bill of indictment is essential to the jurisdiction of the court[.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]n indictment must clearly and positively identify the person charged with the commission of the offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Stroud“[t]he name of the defendant, or a sufficient description if his name is unknown[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Stroud
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.