Simmons v. O'Brien’s Empirical Analysis
77 F.3d 1093 · 1996
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably Williams v. Bramer (1999), Harvey v. Waldron (2000)
20 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 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 Younger v. Harris · Heck v. Humphrey · Allen v. McCurry · Arizona v. Fulminante · Montana v. United States
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Only when a party has previously had such a full and fair opportunity to litigate that issue does the benefit of preclusion outweigh the countervailing due process concerns present whenever a party is es-topped from raising a claim.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rice v. Barnes · Rice v. Barnes“[b]ecause harmless error analysis is applicable to the admission at trial of coerced confessions, judgment in favor of Simmons on this S 1983 action challenging his confession will not necessarily demonstrate the invalidity of his conviction”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[F]ederal courts must give preclusive effect to state court judgments, and the scope of the preclusive effect is governed by the law of the state from which the prior judgment emerged.”
2 later decisions 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.