Sims v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 2012 · most notably Wooley v. State (1999), Griffin v. State (1999)
25 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 Relford v. Commandant, U. S. Disciplinary Barracks · Newman v. State · Kleinrichert v. State · Coleman v. State · Parker 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Second. The prosecuting attorney shall then offer the evidence in support of the prosecution and the defendant shall then offer the evidence in support of his defense. “Third. The parties may then respectively offer rebutting evidence only, unless the court, for good reason, in furtherance of justice, permit them to offer evidence upon their original case.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wash v. State“" Rebuttal evidence is, as its name indicates, that which tends to explain or contradict or disprove evidence offered by the adverse party' Layton v. State, (1973) 261 Ind. 251, 255 , 301 N.E.2d 633, 636 . Surrebuttal evidence serves the same function with regard to rebuttal evidence offered by the opposing party."”
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.