People v. Sims

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• evidence of defendant's prior conviction for manslaughter and prior beatings of defendant's other children admissible to rebut the defense of accident where defendant's three-year-old daughter sustained multiple third degree burns
• evidence admissible to show absence of mistake; probative value outweighed potential prejudice
• evidence admissible to prove absence of mistake

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

52 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Robertson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-10-10· cited 241×
• People v. Steinberg
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1991-08-08· cited 93×
• People v. Brown
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1988-03-07· cited 41×
• People v. Tedesco
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1988-08-08· cited 29×
• People v. Engler
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1989-05-04· cited 25×
• People v. Bagarozy
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1987-12-15· cited 23×
• People v. Moloi
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1987-12-07· cited 20×
• People v. Castillo
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1988-11-07· cited 15×
• People v. Hawker
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1995-05-08· cited 15×
• People v. Medina
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1986-05-27· cited 14×
• People v. Shaw
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1986-11-10· cited 14×
• People v. Manon
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1996-04-04· cited 13×
• People v. Wilcox
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1993-06-03· cited 12×
• People v. Lambert
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1986-12-15· cited 11×
• People v. Thompson
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1990-02-13· cited 11×
• People v. Sachs
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2005-02-04· cited 10×
• People v. Tuckerman
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1987-11-19· cited 10×
• Robertson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-03-28· cited 9×
• People v. Band
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1986-12-31· cited 9×
• People v. Mann
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1986-12-31· cited 8×

Cites

32 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Irvin v. Dowd
  Supreme Court· 1961-06-05· cited 3,697×
• People v. . Molineux
  New York Court of Appeals· 1901-10-15· cited 2,413×
• People v. Yukl
  New York Court of Appeals· 1969-12-11· cited 893×
• People v. Allweiss
  New York Court of Appeals· 1979-10-16· cited 654×
• People v. Pobliner
  New York Court of Appeals· 1973-05-04· cited 379×
• People v. Schwartzman
  New York Court of Appeals· 1969-03-06· cited 378×
• People v. Kennedy
  New York Court of Appeals· 1979-06-05· cited 363×
• People v. Brown
  New York Court of Appeals· 1979-11-27· cited 219×
• People v. Michael
  New York Court of Appeals· 1979-07-10· cited 212×
• People v. Vails
  New York Court of Appeals· 1977-12-21· cited 196×
• People v. Ortiz
  New York Court of Appeals· 1981-11-23· cited 196×
• People v. Henson
  New York Court of Appeals· 1973-10-18· cited 149×
• People v. Moses
  New York Court of Appeals· 1984-10-16· cited 138×
• People v. Byrnes
  New York Court of Appeals· 1974-02-14· cited 117×
• People v. Way
  New York Court of Appeals· 1983-07-05· cited 111×
• People v. De Tore
  New York Court of Appeals· 1974-05-08· cited 107×
• Hall v. Potoker
  New York Court of Appeals· 1980-03-25· cited 99×
• People v. Fiore
  New York Court of Appeals· 1974-05-08· cited 88×
• People v. McKinney
  New York Court of Appeals· 1969-03-06· cited 86×
• People v. Jackson
  New York Court of Appeals· 1976-03-25· cited 82×