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← 268 Ga. 381 - Sims v. State

Sims v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1997

Citation profile

34
cited by 34 later decisions
1
states following
February 2018
most recently cited

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

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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.

  1. “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 passage
  2. “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 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.