5 Cal. 4th 405 - People v. Sims’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 263 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 284 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably 9 Cal. 4th 83 - People v. Crittenden (1994), 8 Cal. 4th 1060 - People v. Rodrigues (1994)
15 federal appellate · 263 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Chapman v. State of California · Wong Sun v. United States · Edwards v. Arizona · Rhode Island v. Innis
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 284 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Once having invoked these rights, the accused `is not subject to further interrogation by the authorities until counsel has been made available to him, unless the accused himself initiates further communication, exchanges, or conversations with the police.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“expressed his desire to deal with the police only through counsel,”
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.