Simmons v. Simmons’s Empirical Analysis
19 F.2d 690 · 1927
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 6 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1989 · most notably Loughran v. Loughran (1934), Doe v. Webster (1979)
20 federal appellate · 6 district · 23 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 McMullen v. Hoffman · Andrews v. Andrews · Commonwealth v. Lane · Heflinger v. Heflinger · Martin v. Martin
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ The marriage of any persons either of whom has been previously married and whose previous marriage has not been terminated by death or a decree of divorce.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“refuses to countenance the continued perpetration of crime between such parties in violation of law and good morals.”
2 later decisions 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.