State v. Sims’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently July 2009 · most notably State v. Hester (1976), State v. Lester (1975)
3 federal appellate · 18 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 Anders v. California · Johnson v. Zerbst · Stovall v. Denno · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Johnson v. State of New Jersey
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]hat ... in the absence of evidence in the record upon which it could be determined that an indigent convicted defendant knowingly and intelligently waived his right of direct appeal and his right to court-appointed counsel for direct appeal prior to the expiration of the time in which such an appeal could be taken, it was error for the Court of Appeals to dismiss the motion for leave to appeal without making such a factual determination. To rule otherwise, would be to make the appellant’s right of direct appeal and his right to counsel for such a direct appeal merely ‘sound and fury signifying nothing.’ ””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Essentially, the opinions in those cases recognize that no conceivable benefit can be derived from rights of which one is unaware. If one's right to direct appeal and his right to court-appointed counsel for such an appeal are to be viable, it is imperative that there be such a determination of such rights by the appellate court.”
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.