Simpson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently June 2000 · most notably State v. Waters (1983), State v. Gatewood (1950)
2 federal appellate · 61 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 The People v. . Plath · Roberts v. People · Davis 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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We think the general rule is well settled, to which there are few, if any, exceptions, that when a statute makes an offense to consist of an act combined with a particular intent, that intent is just as necessary to be proved as the act itself, and must be found by the jury, as matter of fact, before a conviction can be had.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"If the evidence is sufficient to support that charge, it would support a charge of intent to commit murder, arson, larceny, or any other felony the framer of the indictment saw fit to charge him with."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“with intent to commit a felony, to wit, the crime of rape.”
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.