Sims v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently April 1991 · most notably Thomas v. State (1951), Cooper v. State (1936)
24 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 Thompson v. State · Jacobi v. State · Jarvis v. State · Kilgore v. State · Mitchell 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While it is true that in the eases of Cawley v. State, 133 Ala. 128 [ 32 So. 227 ]; Naugher v. State, 116 Ala. 463 [ 23 So. 26 ], and Wiley v. State, 99 Ala. 146 [ 13 So. 424 ], it was held that it was error not to allow the defendant to testify as tending to support his plea of self-defense that the deceased was in the- habit of Carrying a pistol, which fact was known to him, these cases do not go to the extent of supporting the contention that a witness other than defendant knew this fact, when such fact is not traced to defendant’s knowledge. We are unwilling to extend the principle further than is declared in those cases. There was no error in the ruling on this point.””
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.