Simmons v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• corpus delicti must be established by “clear proof’ independent of confession
• corpus delicti of arson is not proved by mere proof that property burned; the law infers that the fire was the result of accident or some providential cause, rather than a criminal design, unless the evidence proves otherwise

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

28 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Pawloski v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1978-10-10· cited 99×
• Jones v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1969-12-05· cited 89×
• Fox v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1979-01-30· cited 46×
• Brown v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1958-12-17· cited 45×
• State v. Bigbee
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1973-02-23· cited 36×
• Ellis v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1969-09-03· cited 35×
• Green v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1973-12-27· cited 31×
• Cambron v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1975-02-19· cited 30×
• Kidwell v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1967-11-08· cited 29×
• Lasko v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1980-09-09· cited 23×
• Burgett v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1974-08-01· cited 23×
• Wells v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1976-07-14· cited 22×
• Wallace v. Rogier
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1979-10-02· cited 22×
• State v. Mullins
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1989-05-19· cited 21×
• Holding v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1963-06-06· cited 18×
• State v. Jones
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1977-12-20· cited 15×
• Jones v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1983-12-15· cited 15×
• Board of Commissioners v. Board of School Commissioners
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1960-04-26· cited 9×
• Laymon v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1961-06-29· cited 9×
• Hopkins v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1973-05-17· cited 6×

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Carlton v. People
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1894-05-05· cited 79×
• People v. Lueder
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1954-09-23· cited 68×
• Nichols v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1891-02-25· cited 53×
• Short v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1954-10-21· cited 41×
• Cargar v. Fee
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1894-11-14· cited 36×
• Ford v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1887-11-29· cited 35×
• Dennis v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1952-01-07· cited 34×
• Phillips v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1859-06-15· cited 31×
• Ralph L. Shirmeyer, Inc. v. Indiana Revenue Board
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1951-07-23· cited 26×
• Ex parte Vincent
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1855-01-15· cited 26×
• Aetna Life Ins. Co. v. Aird
  Fifth Circuit· 1939-12-14· cited 23×
• Palumbo Appeal
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1950-04-10· cited 23×
• Yarlott v. Brown
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1923-01-30· cited 23×
• Huff v. Fetch
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1924-05-13· cited 22×
• Rouse v. Catskill & New York Steam-Boat Co.
  New York Supreme Court· 1891-02-04· cited 17×
• Jordan v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1895-10-31· cited 15×
• Goit in the Suit of Knapp v. Dickerman
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 1866-06-15· cited 12×
• Kimsey v. City of Rome
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1951-10-04· cited 9×
• State v. Warren
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1851-07-01· cited 6×
• State v. Stringer
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1913-10-15· cited 2×