Simmons v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently November 2010 · most notably Hodge v. State (1997), Williams v. State (2000)
26 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Teague v. Lane · Zickefoose v. State · Spradlin v. State · Bellmore 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. acting with the conscious purpose of killing [name victim] 2. did [set out conduct charged as substantial step] 3.which was conduct constituting a substantial step toward the commission of the intended crime of killing [name victim]. If the State failed to prove each of these elements beyond a reasonable doubt, you should find the Defendant not guilty. If the State did prove each of these elements beyond a reasonable doubt, you should find the Defendant guilty of the crime of attempted murder, a felony.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Swallows v. State · Clay v. State“the act must have been done with the specific intent to kill.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Howard v. State · Parks v. State“"The crime of attempted murder is defined as follows: A person attempts to commit a murder when, acting with the conscious purpose of killing another person, he engages in conduct that constitutes a substantial step toward killing that person. To convict the Defendant of attempted murder, the State must have proved each of the following elements:”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Richeson v. State · Carter 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.