Simms v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 1976
20 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 Stevens v. Stewart-Warner Speedometer Corp. · Hansen v. Oregon-Wash. R. & N. Co. · Harrison v. Birrell · McCulsky v. Klosterman · Holmes v. Whitaker
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Valid usages, known to the contracting parties, concerning the subject matter of the agreement, or usages of which the parties are chargeable with knowledge, are by implication incorporated therein, unless expressly or impliedly excluded by its terms, and are admissible to aid in its interpretation, not as tending in any respect or manner to contradict, add to, take from, or vary a contract, but upon the theory that the usage forms a part of the contract.””
1 later decision 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.