Ex parte Sims’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
August 2014
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Estelle v. Williams · Boulware v. State · Warren v. State · Cameron v. State · Garcia v. State
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The defendant in a criminal prosecution for any offense may waive any rights secured him by law except the right of trial by jury in a capital felony case.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Ex Parte Henderson
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.