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← 310 S.C. 439 - State v. Simmons

State v. Simmons’s Empirical Analysis

1993

Citation profile

18
cited by 18 later decisions
3
cited 3 times by the Supreme Court
2
states following
January 2001
most recently cited

13 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on California v. Ramos · State v. Torrence · State v. Lyle · State v. Alexander · State v. Linder

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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Clear and convincing evidence of other crimes that is logically relevant to prove intent is admissible under State v. Lyle if its probative value outweighs its undue prejudicial effect.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[t]he terms life imprisonment and death sentence are to be understood in their pla[i]n and ordinary meaning,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “it tends to make more or less probable some matter in issue upon which it directly or indirectly bears.”
    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.