Ex Parte Simpson’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 1989
12 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. Smith · State v. Kile · Ex Parte Wright
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * this court weighs the evidence and passes upon its conflicts, as a trial court, not in the manner of the application of the substantial evidence rule, but whether we would be justified in our conscience as a trial court in sustaining a verdict of murder in the first degree when returned by a jury."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tijerina v. Baker“not as a reviewing court, but in the exercise of our original jurisdiction, not superior to the district courts, but co-ordinate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tijerina v. Baker
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.