Simpson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 155 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 170 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably 2006 OK CR 19 - Hogan v. State (2006), Cargle v. State (1995)
3 federal appellate · 155 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 Strickland v. Washington · Chapman v. State of California · United States v. Olano · Kotteakos v. United States · United States v. Young
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 170 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“seriously affect[s] the fairness, integrity or public reputation of the judicial proceedings”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“No judgment shall be set aside or new trial granted by any appellate court of this state in any case, civil or criminal, on the ground of misdirection of the jury or for error in any matter of pleading or procedure, unless it is the opinion of the reviewing court that the error complained of has probably resulted in a miscarriage of justice, or constitutes a substantial violation of a constitutional or statutory right.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. GORDON v. STATE · Eizember v. State“which go to the foundation of the case, or which take from a defendant a right which was essential to his defense.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. RUNNELS v. STATE · Grant 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.