Sims v. Eyman’s Empirical Analysis
405 F.2d 439 · 1969
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1989
9 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
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 Stovall v. Denno · Griffin v. California · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Duncan v. State of Louisiana · Malloy v. Hogan
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Under Arizona law either the judge or the jury can impose the death penalty so that a defendant must risk death regardless of whether he pleads guilty or chooses a jury trial. The `burden' petitioner complains of is simply that slightly different evidence may be introduced before a judge, on a guilty plea, than before a jury. This does not constitute the type of burden on the assertion of constitutional rights which Jackson would forbid."”
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.