Sims v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
2
states following
July 2010
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Brady v. United States · Roper Superintendent Potosi Correctional Center v. Simmons · Bowling v. Commonwealth · Quarles v. Commonwealth · State v. Morgan
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“obiter dictum to the effect that life imprisonment without the possibility of parole remains a permissible sentence for [such] offenders”
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.