Sims v. Rives’s Empirical Analysis
84 F.2d 871 · 1936
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 5 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently August 1988 · most notably Neild v. District of Columbia (1940), United States v. Thompson (1971)
44 federal appellate · 5 district · 14 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 710 · 18 U.S.C. § 714
Relies on Gavieres v. United States · Gulf Ry Co v. Ellis · Shoemaker v. United States · Morgan v. Devine · Capital Traction Co. v. Hof
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"We held in Sims v. Rives , 1936, 66 App.D.C. 24 , 84 F.2d 871 , certiorari denied 1936, 298 U.S. 682 , 56 S.Ct. 960 , 80 L.Ed. 1402 , in view of Gavieres v. United States , 1911, 220 U.S. 338 , 31 S.Ct. 421 , 55 L.Ed 489 ; Morey v. Commonwealth , 1871, 108 Mass. 433 , cited therein, and Morgan v. Devine , 1915, 237 U.S. 632 , 35 S.Ct. 712 , 59 L.Ed. 1153 , that `the test of identity of offenses is whether the same evidence is required to sustain them; if not, then the fact that both charges relate to and grow out of one transaction does not make a single offense where two are defined by the statutes.' ( 66 App.D.C. at page 29 , 84 F.2d at page 876 , quoting from Morgan v. Devine , supra 237 U.S. at 632 , 35 S.Ct. 712 , 59 L.Ed. 1153 )."”
2 later decisions 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.