Simpson v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 1978
10 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 46 La. Ann. 36 - Caspar v. Prosdame · Taylor v. Ellington · Simons v. Lewis
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Every man has a right to be protected from defamation, as much as from assault and bodily harm. His reputation is his property, and more valuable than property. To maintain one’s good name unimpaired is the anxious concern of all who possess good names. Plaintiff, when denounced and villified, did not take into his own hands the redress of his grievance. He appealed to the courts. This is what the law counsels. The courts shall be open, and every person, for injury done Mm, shall have adequate remedy. Such is the mandate of the organic law. It means substantial redress, not the mere form of it.” Simpson v. Robinson, 104 La. 180 , 28 South. 908 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Lyons
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.