Simpson v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently April 2006 · most notably 157 N.J. Super. 173 - Leslie Blau Co. v. Alfieri (1978), Greenbrier Farms, Inc. v. Clarke (1952)
3 federal appellate · 36 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 Roehm v. Horst · Central Trust Co. v. Chicago Auditorium Ass'n · Central Trust Company of Illinois v. Chicago Auditorium Association No 162 Chicago Auditorium Association · Ricks v. Sumler · James v. Kibler's Adm'r
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“according to practically all the authorities, to await the time for performance and bring suit when that time has arrived . . . .”
3 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.