Sims v. State of Georgia’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
354 federal appellate · 31 district · 704 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,233 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2018 · most notably Mincey v. Arizona (1978), Crane v. Kentucky (1986)
354 federal appellate · 31 district · 704 state decisions — followed in 36 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 Escobedo v. Illinois · Jackson v. Denno · Fikes v. State of Alabama · Sims v. Georgia
Cited together with Jackson v. Denno · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Johnson v. State of New Jersey · Lego v. Twomey · Townsend v. Sain
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 1,233 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although the judge need not make formal findings of fact or write an opinion, his conclusion that the confession is voluntary must appear from the record with unmistakable clarity.”
52 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“defense counsel called the court's attention to the Jackson v. Denno ruling on this Court and stated that he did not “know whether the procedure being followed at this time satisfies the rule decided by the Supreme Court on June 22nd, 1964 that the Court must make judicial determination whether the statement was made voluntarily before it is read to the jury-””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““There is no actual ruling or finding on the record showing that the trial judge determined the voluntariness of the confession.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carter v. Eyman
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.