Simons v. Vaughn’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
2
states following
March 1936
most recently cited
10 state decisions
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““By the common law an agent was one who, by the authority and on account of another, undertook to do something for another, and to render an account of it.””
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.