Simms v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
January 2011
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Richardson v. State · Kien v. State · Cox v. State · Spears v. State · Powell 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the defendant fails to advance a mitigating cireumstance at the sentencing hearing, this court will presume that the cireumstance is not significant and the defendant is precluded from advancing it as a mitigating cireum-stance for the first time on appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Webb v. State“may revise a sentence authorized by statute if, after due consideration of the trial court's decision, the Court finds that the sentence is inappropriate in light of the nature of the offense and the character of the offender.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harris 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.