State v. Sims’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably 425 So. 2d 1251 - State v. Telsee (1983), State v. Brogdon (1984)
67 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 State v. Sepulvado · 384 So. 2d 355 - State v. Bonanno · 374 So. 2d 1195 - State v. Spencer · 397 So. 2d 1287 - State v. Williams · State v. Vaughn
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This is not to say that disparity in sentences of codefendants with similar backgrounds, charged with similar participation in identical crimes, may not be considered as a factor in determining whether a sentence is excessive and out of proportion to the severity of the crime. It is a factor that may be considered by this court, along with all other appropriate considerations, when there is no reasonable basis in the record for the disparity. A trial judge has discretion in sentencing, and absent an abuse of that discretion, a sentence will not be overturned on appeal.” Sims , at 1084.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the purposeless and needless imposition of pain and suffering....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.