Sims v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
26
cited by 26 later decisions
1
states following
October 1986
most recently cited
3 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Johnson v. Zerbst · Patterson v. State · Williams v. Gooding · Brown v. Caldwell
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“criminal defendant may in a procedural setting implement choices which have the effect of waiving basic constitutional guarantees.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Grace v. Hopper
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.