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.

• where injury inflicted by defendant required surgery, the intervening cause of surgery was not extraordinary and it was therefore fair to hold defendant responsible for the victim's death
• victim died of congestive heart failure following surgery for fractured mandible suffered in the beating sustained during burglary

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Jenkins v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2000-04-03· cited 241×
• Wooley v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1999-09-29· cited 145×
• Palmer v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1999-01-07· cited 70×
• Gibson v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1987-11-13· cited 29×
• Pittman v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1988-09-14· cited 20×
• Duncan v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2006-11-21· cited 19×
• Bei Bei Shuai v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2012-02-08· cited 19×
• Ewing v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1999-11-19· cited 15×
• Ford v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1988-04-26· cited 14×
• State v. Huff
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1990-03-20· cited 12×
• Spencer v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1996-01-18· cited 10×
• Murphy v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1988-02-08· cited 5×
• Allen v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1991-02-19· cited 4×
• Wilson v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1989-05-10· cited 3×
• Jesse Palmer v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1998-01-07
• Bei Bei Shuai v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2012-02-08

Cites

2 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Miller v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1975-10-10· cited 10×
• Gramm v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1978-06-14· cited 3×