Simpson v. Huston’s Empirical Analysis
1855
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2024
10 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.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Nothing would be more unjust or more inequitable than to permit a creditor to sacrifice, perhaps ruin, a debtor by execution, when he, although adjudged by law to be indebted to his debtor, is neither making an effort to pay nor can the debt be by possibility collected from him unless by the debtor’s retaining the money which the creditor is attempting to force off to himself.”
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.