Simmons v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
September 2007
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Widener v. State · Edgecomb v. State · Kien v. State · Sensback v. State · Battles 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At the outset, we note that sentencing decisions are within the trial court's discretion, and will be reversed only upon a showing of abuse of discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McCray 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.