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← 384 S.C. 145 - State v. Simmons

State v. Simmons’s Empirical Analysis

2009

Citation profile

30
cited by 30 later decisions
1
states following
October 2017
most recently cited

30 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Crawford v. Washington · Schmerber v. State of California · Manson v. Brathwaite · State v. Torrence

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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “In reviewing jury charges for error, this [c]ourt must consider the [trial] court's jury charge as a whole in light of the evidence and issues presented at trial.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “If, as a whole, the charges are reasonably free from error, isolated portions which might be misleading do not constitute reversible error.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “To warrant reversal, a [trial] court's refusal to give a requested jury charge must be both erroneous and prejudicial to the defendant.”
    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.