Simon v. Fine’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 1986
16 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 Lacey v. Washburn & Williams Co. · Adamchick v. Wyoming Valley Collieries Co. · Monahan v. Seeds & Durham · Parks v. Miller Printing MacHine Co. · Neely v. Provident Life & Accident Insurance
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Inference is a process of reasoning by which a fact or proposition sought to be established ... is deduced as a logical consequence from other facts, or a state of facts, already proved or admitted.””
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.