Simms v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Ryle v. State (2005), Evans v. State (1986)
25 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 Dann v. Johnston · 162 Ind. App. 658 - Economy Oil Corp. v. Indiana Department of State Revenue · Gardner v. State · Rhone-Poulenc, S. A. v. Dann · Franks v. State
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] person assigned to Class I earns one (1) day of credit time for each day he is imprisoned for a crime or confined awaiting trial or sentencing.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Bryant v. State · Emerson v. State“[TJhere is no basis for the proposition that the legislature could have contemplated 'extra' or 'double' credit to a convicted felon under these circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ragon v. State“[a] person imprisoned for a crime or imprisoned awaiting trial or sentencing is initially assigned to Class I,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Emerson 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.