Simmons v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably State v. Snowden (2005), Gray v. State (2002)
44 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Ohio v. Roberts · Pointer v. Texas · California v. Green · Bourjaily v. United States
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here hearsay statements are admitted under an exception which is not considered firmly rooted, then they are presumptively unreliable and inadmissible for Confrontation Clause purposes and must be excluded, at least absent a showing of particularized guarantees of trustworthiness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gray v. State“category include: dying declarations, prior testimony, business records, public records, excited utterances, statements made in seeking medical treatment, and co-conspirator statements. Id. Where the hearsay in question falls within a”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gray v. State“category; however, a declaration against penal interest is not one of them. See Chapman v. State, 331 Md. 448 , 457 n. 3, 628 A.2d 676 (1993). The hearsay exceptions that fall within the”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gray v. State
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.