Simonson v. Lovewell’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 1983
15 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 Murray v. Galbraith · Murray v. Galbraith · St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. Carter · Patton v. Cruce · St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. Devaney
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘"‘In determining the amount of damages you will award to the plaintiff, in the event you find for the plaintiff, you have the right to take into consideration all of the evidence in the case, and if you find that prior to the publication of said article plaintiff’s reputation for morality was bad, and that he further bore the reputation of being a defaulter, then you may consider such evidence in mitigation of any damages you may award the plaintiff by way of compensation. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dunagan v. Upham
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.