Simpson v. Kansas City’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently May 2004 · most notably Hamer v. State Highway Commission of the Missouri (1957), Eckhoff v. Forest Preserve District (1941)
41 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 County Court v. Griswold · City of St. Louis v. Meintz · North Missouri Railroad v. Lackland · Leisse v. St. Louis & Iron Mountain Railroad · Dickey v. Tennison
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The plaintiffs say further that at the time of the passage of said ordinance to condemn plaintiffs’ said property, in November, 1879, it was not necessary to take said property for public use as a part of said Twelfth street, and it was not necessary to so take said property at any time while said proceedings were pending; and said proceedings to condemn the plaintiffs’ said property as aforesaid were needlessly and wrongfully begun by the defendant, and they were needlessly, wrongfully and vexatiously continued by the defendant, against the protest of these plaintiffs, and said proceedings were unnecessarily delayed and kept pending over said property of the plaintiffs during said long period of time, during all of which time said proceedings were entirely under the control of the defendant, and could have been dismissed by it at any time; all to the great damage of the plaintiffs as above set forth. Wherefore, plaintiffs say that by reason of the matters and things herein stated they have been damaged in the sum of five thousand dollars, for which sum, with costs of this suit, they ask judgment against the defendant.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The authorities directing such improvements should have, and in the absence of statutory provisions are generally held to have, discretion to accept or reject the property at the price fixed. `This rule is a necessity in view of the rational conduct of affairs.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“I have no doubt that the city may dismiss its proceedings at any time before final judgment in the circuit court; and then the only liability that would be incurred would be the expenses.”
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.