State v. Sims’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Rivers v. Exec. Dir. of the Utah Dep't of Envtl. Quality & the Dir. of the Utah Div. of Water Quality (2017), Stewart v. Utah Public Service Commission (1994)
1 federal appellate · 27 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
Relies on State v. Menzies · State v. Thurman · State v. Arroyo · Burkett v. Schwendiman · Wickham v. Fisher
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An issue on appeal is considered moot when the requested judicial relief cannot affect the rights of the litigants.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“when an issue is moot, 'judicial policy dictates against our rendering an advisory opinion.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Martinez“it would have no legal effect on the parties”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carlton v. Brown
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.