Simpson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently July 2009
8 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 Hatfield v. Commonwealth · Lester v. Commonwealth
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“INSTRUCTION NO. A You will find the defendant guilty under this instruction if, and only if, you believe from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt all of the following: (a) That in this county, on or about December 1st or 2nd, 1979, and before the finding of the indictment herein, he voluntarily participated in a robbery of Harold Baker; (b) That during the course of that robbery, and as a consequence thereof, Harold Baker was intentionally shot and killed. [If you find the defendant guilty under this instruction, you shall say in your verdict only that you find him guilty, and return the verdict to the Court without deliberating on the question of fixing the punishment.] INSTRUCTION NO. B (a) “Intentionally” — A defendant acts intentionally with respect to another’s death when it is his conscious objective to cause that death.”
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.