United States v. Sims’s Empirical Analysis
514 F.2d 147 · 1975
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably 84 Ill. 2d 186 - Wilson v. Clark (1981), 113 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Anderson (1986)
14 federal appellate · 16 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 18 U.S.C. § 495
Relies on Neil v. Biggers · Jenkins v. United States · United States v. Bohle · United States v. Williams
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The facts or data in the particular case upon which an expert bases an opinion or inference may be those perceived by or made known to him at or before the hearing. If of a type reasonably relied upon by experts in the particular field in forming opinions or inferences upon the subject, the facts or data need not be admissible in evidence.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"The rationale in favor of the admissibility of expert testimony based on hearsay is that the expert is fully capable of judging for himself what is or is not a reliable basis for his opinion. This relates directly to one of the functions of the expert witness; namely to lend his special expertise to the issue before him. In so doing, various experts customarily rely on evidence not independently admissible in the courtroom ... In a sense, the expert synthesizes the primary source material be it hearsay or not into properly admissible evidence in opinion form. The trier of fact is then capable of judging the credibility of the witness as it would that of anyone else giving expert testimony. This rule respects the functions and abilities of both the expert witness and the trier of fact while assuring that the requirement of witness confrontation is fulfilled." 514 F.2d at 149 . (Emphasis added.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“. is fully capable of judging for himself what is, or is not, a reliable basis for his opinion. . . . (E)xperience teach[es] the expert to separate the wheat from the chaff and to use only those sources and kinds of information which are of a type reasonably relied upon by similar experts in arriving at sound opinions on the subject.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Melton · State v. Rolls
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.