People v. Sims’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
38
cited by 38 later decisions
2
states following
May 2025
most recently cited
36 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Batson v. Kentucky · Barker v. Wingo · Evitts v. Lucey · 225 Ill. 2d 551 - People v. Piatkowski
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he seriousness of the offense or the need to protect the public may outweigh mitigating factors and the goal of rehabilitation”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Vega“should not focus on a few words or statements made by the trial court, but must consider the record as a whole.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Robinson“It is not enough to say that as a result of the missing records we do not know whether any error occurred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.