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← 59 VI 480 - Simmonds v. People

Simmonds v. People’s Empirical Analysis

2013

Citation profile

40
cited by 40 later decisions
1
states following
March 2026
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 48 U.S.C. § 1561

Relies on Kotteakos v. United States · Johnson v. United States · California v. Green · McKaskle v. Wiggins · Hurtado v. People of the State of California

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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[defendants] may be prosecuted by information unless a local law requires [they] be prosecuted by grand jury.” Simmonds v. People, 59 V.I. 480 , 490 (2013) (quoting Codrington v. People, 57 V.I. 176 , 196 (2012)). 3 . While”
    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.