State v. Sims’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 state decisions

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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “'anything having a legitimate tendency to throw light on the * accuracy, truthfulness, and sincerity of a witness may be shown and considered in determining the credit to be accorded his testimony,'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Gillian · Smalls v. State

2. “However, the trial court’s error of limiting the scope of appellant’s cross-examination is harmless. See State v. Mitchell, 286 S.C. 572 , 336 S.E.2d 150 (1985) (trial errors are harmless where they could not reasonably have affected result of trial). The State’s case against appellant was strong without resorting to Peterson’s testimony..... Accordingly, while the trial court erred by limiting appellant’s cross-examination of Peterson, the error was harmless because the error could not reasonably have affected the result of trial. See State v. Mitchell, supra.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Gillian

3. “Three elements must be met for a statement to be an excited utterance: (1) the statement must relate to a startling event or condition; (2) the statement must have been made while the declarant was under the stress of excitement; and (3) the stress of excitement must be caused by the startling event or condition.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Washington