State v. Simmons’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
1 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently November 2019
1 district · 13 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 Beck v. Alabama · Hopper v. Evans · State v. Bishop · State v. Tillman · Leigh Furniture and Carpet Co. v. Isom
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“entry between the outer folds of the labia”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“put the tip of his penis 'on' her labia.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“was insufficient to constitute even slight penetration, and the Supreme Court reversed the defendant's conviction for rape of a child. Id. at 1154-55 . ¶ 29 Defendant's reliance on Simmons is misplaced. At the time Simmons was decided, the relevant section of the Utah Code, which defined”
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.