Simms v. Rolfe’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently July 1972
6 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 Halliburton v. Brinkley
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The abbreviation `RR' is not an abbreviation commonly used to designate government subdivisions. Government surveys were not made with reference to railroads. The abbreviation `RR' does not necessarily convey the meaning of railroad to one of only ordinary experience in land titles . . . the letters could have reference to Ridge Road or River Road. It might refer to any natural or artificial monument where such letters were used in spelling the monument in mind.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The letter “R” or “r” is the proper abbreviation for range within the meaning of government surveys when used with reference thereto. When used otherwise in an attempted description of land, it means nothing.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Glover v. Walter
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.