32 Cal. 3d 468 - People v. Sims’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
93 federal appellate · 510 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 694 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably 51 Cal. 3d 335 - Lucido v. Superior Court (1990), 41 Cal. 3d 903 - Producers Dairy Delivery Co. v. Sentry Insurance (1986)
93 federal appellate · 510 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 United States v. Utah Construction & Mining Co. · Sunshine Anthracite Coal Co. v. Adkins · 19 Cal. 2d 807 - Bernhard v. Bank of America National Trust & Saving Association · 11 Cal. 3d 28 - Strumsky v. San Diego County Employees Retirement Assn. · 22 Cal. 3d 865 - Clemmer v. Hartford Insurance Co.
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 694 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen an administrative agency is acting in a judicial capacity and resolves disputed issues of fact properly before it which the parties have had an adequate opportunity to litigate.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]o subject [Sims] to a second proceeding in which she must defend herself against the very same charges of misconduct would be manifestly unfair.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“undermine the integrity of the judicial system[.]”
4 later decisions 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.