Sims v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably 255 Ga. App. 390 - Glass v. State (2002), Gardner v. State (2001)
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 Jackson v. Virginia · Edge v. State · Stanley v. State · Sabel v. State · McGill 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“but the trial transcript does not reveal whether she did so. Nevertheless, even if counsel had moved for a mistrial at this time, the trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying the motion as to Gilbert's”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. CUYLER v. the STATE.“may consider the nature of the statement, the other evidence in the case, and the court's and counsel's action in dealing with the impropriety.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. CUYLER v. the 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.