State v. Simmons’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Commonwealth v. Pronkoskie (1978), Lancaster v. People (1980)
45 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 United States v. Wade · Stovall v. Denno · Gilbert v. California · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · McNabb v. United States
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“still in a state of excitement and the psychological guarantee of trustworthiness was still present.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[did not] remove its spontaneous nature within the contemplation of the doctrine [of res gestae ].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.