Sims v. Georgia’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
120 federal appellate · 32 district · 205 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 514 later decisions (42 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2017 · most notably Batson v. Kentucky (1986), Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. (1977)
120 federal appellate · 32 district · 205 state decisions — followed in 31 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 Jackson v. Denno · Whitus v. State of Georgia Whitus · Sims v. State of Georgia · Fikes v. State of Alabama · Beecher v. Alabama
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 514 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“". . . The State had every opportunity to offer the police officers,. . . to contradict petitioner's version of the events. Its failure to do so. . . lends support to the conclusion that their testimony would not, in fact, have rebutted petitioner's." 389 U.S. 404, 406 , 88 S.Ct. 523, 525 , 19 L.Ed.2d 634 .”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Howell · Gray v. Swenson“Petitioner had been in the continuous custody of the police for over eight hours and had not been fed at all during that time. He had not been given access to family, friends, or counsel at any point. He is an illiterate, with only a third grade education, whose mental capacity is decidedly limited. Under such circumstances the fact that the police may have warned petitioner of his right not to speak is of little significance. 389 U.S. 404 , 88 S.Ct. 525 .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cooper v. Griffin · Smith v. Kemp
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.