Sims v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 2017
9 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 Gay v. Balkcom · Sharpe v. Smith · Broome v. Matthews
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The burden is on the applicant to make out his case, that is, to prove to the satisfaction of the habeas corpus judge that the alleged violation of his constitutional rights did, in fact, occur. [Citations]” Sims v. Smith, 228 Ga. 136, 137 ( 184 SE2d 347 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. Leverette
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.