Sims v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2020 · most notably Hill v. McDonough (2006), Sochor v. State (2004)
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 72 state decisions — followed in 11 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.
Relationships
Relies on Kyles v. Whitley · Chambers v. Mississippi · Dobbert v. Florida · Collins v. Youngblood · Mitan v. United States
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may not delegate the power to enact a law or the right to exercise unrestricted discretion in applying the law.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Sims' argument centers solely on what may happen if something goes wrong.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“determining the methodology and the chemicals to be used are matters best left to the Department of Corrections.”
4 later decisions 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.