Simpson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably Clay v. State (1994), Ottens v. State (1994)
50 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 United States v. Batchelder · Wicks v. State · White v. State · Free v. State · Ruiz 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“subject matter jurisdiction ... is determined from the pleadings, and once a proper charge is filed in circuit court, that court may exercise jurisdiction over that subject matter. Walker v. State , 309 Ark. 23 , 827 S.W.2d 637 (1992).... Jurisdiction is granted to a particular position, that is, to a particular court, and not to the person who fills it. Nation v. State , 283 Ark. 250 , 674 S.W.2d 939 (1984).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“In this case, appellant was charged with four counts of rape involving three victims. All of the alleged events occurred at appellant's home. Two of the victims J.L. and D.W. testified that they were at appellant's home at the same time when appellant told both victims to come into his bedroom where he performed oral sex on one victim while the other child performed anal sex on appellant. Each of these victims testified that appellant performed oral sex on them and J.L. testified that he also saw appellant perform oral sex on D.W. D.W. also testified that appellant performed anal sex on him on a different occasion. M.H. testified appellant asked him to come back in his bedroom while there were other boys in the house and appellant performed oral sex on M.H. As all this evidence would have been admissible at the trial of each charge to prove motive, intent or plan, it was not an abuse of the trial judge's discretion to deny severance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clay v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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