State v. Simmonds’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
November 1989
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Eaddy v. People · Hernandez v. Beto · State v. Hume · John C. Rastrom v. Allan L. Robbins, Warden, Maine State Prison · State v. Pullen
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““it fails to follow that in each and every situation counsel’s representation that he considers himself inadequately prepared per se establishes that the denial of a continuance, in the face of such expressed ‘opinion’, is automatically an abuse of judicial discretion.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Stinson“We disagree. “[A]n abuse of discretion will be found only if ‘palpable error’ or ‘apparent injustice’ is established by the party charging the abuse.” State v. Simmonds, Me., 313 A.2d 120, 122 (1973).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Tracy
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.