State v. Sims’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently November 2025
23 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 Chapman v. State of California · Schneble v. Florida · Milton v. Wainwright · Erickson v. United States · Kirchberg v. Feenstra
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) In all cases in which evidence of character or a trait of character of a person is admissible, proof may be made by testimony as to reputation or by testimony in the form of an opinion. On cross-examination, inquiry is allowable into relevant specific instances of conduct. (2) In cases in which character or a trait of character of a person is an essential element of a charge, claim, or defense, proof may also be made of specific instances of his conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Error may not be predicated upon a ruling which admits or excludes evidence unless a substantial right of the party is affected.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Robertson“the error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Robertson
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.