Sims v. Struthers’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably Roan v. Smith (1961), Aaron v. State (1961)
34 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 Cobb v. Malone · Duke v. Gaines · Moore-Handley Hardware Co. v. Williams · Campbell v. State · Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if there is a purpose for which offered evidence is admissible, the trial court's admission [of] the evidence is not error, even though the evidence was offered for an improper purpose.”
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.