State v. Simmons’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1972
15 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.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ It would not be proper for any court in any state to sustain a service of any judicial process, either civil or criminal, where the service of such process was obtained only by the infraction of some law, or in violation of some well-recognized rule of honesty or fair dealing, as by force or fraud. Such a service would not only be a special wrong against the individual upon whom the service was made, but it would also be a general wrong against society itself — a violation of those fundamental principles of mutual trust and confidence which lie at the very foundation of all organized society, and which are necessary, in the very nature of things, to hold society together.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. McNaspy · In re Flack
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.