State v. Sims’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably State v. Carter (1982), State v. Brown (1990)
1 federal appellate · 67 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 Townsend v. Sain · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Douglas v. People of State of California · Ross v. Moffitt · United States v. Tateo
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“having given due regard to the opportunity of the jury to pass upon the credibility of the witnesses, it clearly and convincingly appears that there was a manifest denial of justice under the law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Certainly, it seems clear that far from putting a criminal defendant in jeopardy a second time, a reversal of an order for a new trial, instigated by a state appeal, places him in the precise position he was in after the verdict in his first trial. In no sense is a second prosecution begun.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Kleinwaks“32 Tenn. L. Rev. 449 , 458 (1965); Note, `The State Right to Appeal: Has Maine been too Cautious?”
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.