Sims v. Sims’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
12 district · 322 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 339 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably State v. Smith (2004), State v. Rivera (2003)
12 district · 322 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 Weinberger v. Romero-Barcelo · Porter v. Warner Holding Co. · Shaw v. Railroad Co. · Beals ex rel. Walker v. Ares · Eliza Brown v. Frances Swann
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 339 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An abuse of discretion occurs when a ruling is clearly contrary to the logical conclusions demanded by the facts and circumstances of the case.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“A person who is subject to service of process shall be joined as a party in the action if: (1) in his absence complete relief cannot be accorded among those already parties; or (2) he claims an interest relating to the subject of the action and is so situated that the disposition of the action in his absence may: (a) as a practical matter impair or impede his ability to protect that interest; or (b) leave any of the persons already parties subject to a substantial risk of incurring double, multiple or otherwise inconsistent obligations by reason of his claimed interest....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[N]o innovation upon the common law that is not clearly expressed by the legislature will be presumed.”
2 later decisions 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.