State v. Simler’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently September 1977 · most notably State v. Hinojosa (1951), State v. Feger (1960)
35 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 State v. Studebaker · State v. Henderson · State v. Melton · State v. Schneiders · State v. Ruffin
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There was no direct proof whatever of the cause of deceased's death. No evidence was introduced to show what injuries he sustained, or that they were fatal. * * * The criminal agency was proventhe automobile collision caused by culpable negligence. But was the death produced by it? We do not mean to say such facts cannot be proven circumstantially, when necessary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Pennick
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.