Sims v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
April 2012
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Woods v. State · Timberlake v. State · Ben-Yisrayl v. State · Ben-Yisrayl 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A reasonable probability is a probability sufficient to undermine confidence in the outcome.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Jervis v. State · Heyen v. State“However, this circumstance in no way relieves us of our obligation to decide the law as applied to the facts in the record in order to determine whether reversal is required.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Romo 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.