Sims v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Clark v. State (1999), O'KELLEY v. State (2008)
43 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Rawlings v. Kentucky · United States v. Salvucci · Walter v. United States · Blalock v. Blalock
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The trial court’s charge was a correct statement of the law. We do not think the jury would have been misled by the definition of criminal negligence given as part of the charge on accident or misfortune. Rather, the trial court’s instruction simply followed OCGA § 16-2-2. . . . Death caused by accident is not a crime. Death caused by criminal negligence is not an accident. The trial court quite properly defined criminal negligence to enable the jury to apply the charge on accident to the facts as they might be found to exist.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Yeager v. State“sound discretion to control the content of the opening statement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. State
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.