Sims v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
April 1988
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Williams v. State · Boykin v. State · Ex Parte Bratchett
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Words used in a statute to define an offense need not be strictly pursued in the indictment; it is sufficient to use other words conveying the same meaning, or which include the sense of the statutory words.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Phillips v. State
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.