Simpson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently April 1977 · most notably Austin v. United States (1967), Collins v. State (1977)
5 federal appellate · 53 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 State v. Freidrich · Hayden v. State · Thompson v. State · Hogan v. State · Fagg 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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The jury have found the prisoner guilty of murder, but, after finding a degree of murder which the proof does not warrant, the verdict stands for the offense of murder, but fails as to the degree. It is then as though the jury had found him guilty of murder, but failed to assess the punishment. The two degrees of murder are not.distinct-offenses. They are only statutory regulations of the punishment of the one offense of murder, to be inflicted according to the mental state in which the crime is committed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“‘‘Avoluntary release of a convict fromimprisonment by a warden or other person having legal custody of him is illegal, and the convict is an escaped felon so long as he is at liberty. The warden's guilty consent to his escape cannot abrogate the judgment of conviction and legalize his liberty for an hour or any other-length of time.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Troy
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.