Simons v. Munch’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently January 1966
5 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 Haskell v. Kansas Natural Gas Co. · Watson v. Lawson · Sharp v. McColm · Attorney General v. New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad · Drach v. Isola
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * True it is, that where the language of a judgment or decree is clear and unambiguous, neither the pleadings nor the findings or verdict, nor matters de hors the record may be resorted to to change the meaning. It must stand and be enforced as it speaks. But when the meaning is obscure, doubtful or ambiguous, the judgment roll or record may always be examined for the purpose of rendering certain that which may be open for construction or interpretation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Holmberg v. Holmberg
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.