Simpson v. Ferguson’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently November 2002 · most notably 18 Cal. 2d 256 - Kinnison v. Guaranty Liquidating Corp. (1941), Cowdery v. London Etc. Bank (1903)
5 federal appellate · 27 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 Teal v. Walker · Gilman v. Illinois and Mississippi Telegraph Company. Coykendall, Garnishee v. Idem · Sexton v. . Breese · West v. Conant · Montgomery v. Merrill
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The general rule is that the mortgagee is not entitled to the rents and profits of the mortgaged premises until he takes actual possession, or until possession is taken, in his behalf, by a receiver, * * * or until, in proper form, he demands and is refused possession,’ ” the court continued: “This general rule the federal courts will follow, except in cases where it appears that the law of the state where the premises are situated applies a different rule.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lacoe v. De Long
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.