Simmons v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 2021
2 federal appellate · 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 Strickland v. Washington · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Doyle v. Ohio · Andrus v. Shell Oil Co. · State v. Johnson
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he law is clearly established that the state cannot, through evidence or argument, comment upon an accused's exercise of a constitutional right.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.