State v. Simpson’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably Normand Josef Enterprises, Inc. v. Connecticut National Bank (1994), New England Land Co. v. DeMarkey (1990)
57 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 North Carolina v. Pearce · Texas v. McCullough · State v. Pailin · State v. Byrnes · Labree v. Major
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[d]ue process of law * * * requires that vindictiveness against a defendant for having successfully attacked his first conviction must play no part in the sentence he receives after a new trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“events subsequent to the first trial that may have thrown new light upon the defendant's life, health, habits, conduct, and mental and moral propensities.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Reversal of the original conviction nullifies the previous sentence, thereby clearing the slate for the imposition of a completely new sentence.”
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.