Charles Simms v. Hannah T Simms’s Empirical Analysis
175 U.S. 162 · 1899
Citation profile
82 federal appellate · 25 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 276 later decisions (24 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably Sosna v. Iowa (1975), Glidden Company v. Zdanok Lurk (1962)
82 federal appellate · 25 district · 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.
Relationships
Relies on Shively v. Bowlby · Burrus · Hiram Barber v. Huldah a Barber by Her Next Friend George Cronkhite · Kurtz v. Moffitt
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 276 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The whole subject of the domestic relations of husband and wife, parent and child, belongs to the laws of the states, and not to the laws of the United States.” (Emphasis added.) 136 U.S. at 593-94 , 10 S.Ct. at 853 .”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““We disclaim altogether any jurisdiction in the courts of the United States upon the subject of divorce, or for the allowance of alimony, either as an original proceeding in chancery or as an incident to divorce a vinculo, or to one from bed and board.””
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“has the entire dominion and sovereignty, national and local, Federal and state, and has full legislative power over all subjects upon which the legislature of a state might legislate within the state”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.