Simpson v. Mars Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
6 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Dube v. Likins (2007), State v. Second Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada (2002)
6 district · 14 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 Chowdhry v. NLVH, INC. · Prins v. Holland-North America Mortgage Co. · Jones v. Golden Spike Corp. · Vacation Village, Inc. v. Hitachi America, Ltd. · Mims v. Metropolitan Life Ins.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that publication of defamatory material to anyone other than the person defamed, even to agents, is publication for the purpose of making a prima facie case of defamation”
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.