Sims v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably 111 Ill. 2d 87 - People v. Coleman (1986), 337 Pa. Super. 174 - Commonwealth v. Grady (1984)
27 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 Patterson v. Medberry · State Ex Rel. Van Natta v. Rising · Oliver v. United States · Simmons v. State · Dolphus v. State
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All of the authorities relied .upon by [Sims] do, indeed hold that a law which makes a crime punishable in a manner in which it was not punishable at the time it was committed is an invalid ex post facto law. But these cases have no application here, because the offense with which [Sims] was charged was committed after the adoption of Act 931 of 1975. The enhanced penalty provided for a third offense by that act is not for the first or second offense, but is for the third offense, which is considered as ag-gravkted by reason of the preceding offenses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Laymon v. State“habitual criminal and habitual traffic offenders acts are not ex post facto laws, in circumstances such as those here presented, since they give notice that if persons persist in certain behavior they will be punished more severely than previously.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brigance 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.