Sims v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
425 F.3d 560 · 2005
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably United States v. Basham (2009), United States v. Williams (2006)
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Chapman v. State of California · Batson v. Kentucky · Williams v. Taylor
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Alttorneys are entitled to rely on the opinions of mental health experts....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“not suggest that the jury cannot consider Sims's background as a mitigating factor but rather that it should not find that [factor]”
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.