Sims v. . Sims’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1973 · most notably Logan v. United States (1892), Schindler v. Royal Insurance Co. (1932)
2 federal appellate · 47 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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.
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is apparent that the distinction between records of criminal convictions and judgments in civil actions between the parties was overlooked, as the authorities cited refer to judgments in civil proceedings, and the distinction is not alluded to.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Markett v. Gemke“I think it quite clear that the disqualification created by this statute is consequent only upon a conviction in this State.”
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.