Sims v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 5 district · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably State v. Lamme (1990), Floyd v. Fruit Industries, Inc. (1957)
6 federal appellate · 5 district · 50 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 McKenna v. Whipple · Nelson v. Branford Lighting & Water Co. · Price v. Tehan · Strakosch v. Connecticut Trust & Safe Deposit Co. · Stearns v. . Titus
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“damages based upon the loss to the estate of a decedent by his death necessarily involves a consideration of the probable duration of his life”
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.