Sims v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that counsel could not be considered ineffective for honoring the defendant’s wishes where the defendant directed counsel not to collect other mitigating evidence
• “[W]e do not believe counsel can be considered ineffective for honoring the client’s wishes.”
• exclusion of immaterial evidence is not error

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Sims v. Singletary
  Eleventh Circuit· 1998-09-22· cited 236×
• Sims v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-02-16· cited 128×
• Porter v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-05-03· cited 108×
• Reed v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-04-15· cited 73×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-10-20· cited 69×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-12-02· cited 40×
• Sims v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-02-08· cited 29×
• Bryan v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-02-22· cited 26×
• Lopez v. Singletary
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-09-02· cited 26×
• Krawczuk v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2012-04-12· cited 26×
• Shere v. Moore
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-09-12· cited 25×
• Hendrix v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-07-07· cited 25×
• Fotopoulos v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-12-19· cited 14×
• Boyd v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-10-20· cited 9×
• Sims v. Singletary
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-06-24· cited 7×
• Galban v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-09-29· cited 5×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2012-07-12· cited 5×
• Sims v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-10-27· cited 4×
• Cramer v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-05-02· cited 3×
• Hickmon v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-02-18

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• United States v. Bagley
  Supreme Court· 1985-07-02· cited 8,539×
• Hitchcock v. Dugger
  Supreme Court· 1987-04-22· cited 760×
• Bundy v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-05-09· cited 135×
• Bundy v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1986-10-14· cited 53×
• Stevens v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-10-05· cited 42×
• Sims v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-11-03· cited 34×
• Delap v. Dugger
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-10-08· cited 28×
• Spaziano v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-05-22· cited 9×