Simpson v. Highfill’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently April 1953
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 Hogan v. Bailey · 83 Cal. App. 74 - Brown v. Brown · 31 Cal. App. 335 - Jennings v. Jordan · First National Bank v. Cochran · Sharpless Separator Co. v. Gray
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.
““The rule that a court may take judicial notice of its own records is subject to certain limitations, and the present case falls clearly within the exceptions to the rule”.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Morgan v. Whitehead““The defendants cannot avoid the necessity of either pleading specially the former judgment or offering the same in evidence in order to bar the plaintiff’s action.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Morgan v. Whitehead
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.