Simmons v. Friday’s Empirical Analysis
190 F.2d 849 · 1951
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 1986
7 federal appellate · 4 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 Trustees v. Greenough · Central Railroad Banking Co of Georgia v. Pettus · Hobbs v. McLean · Wallace v. Fiske · Irving-Austin Bldg. Corp. v. Cunningham
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Since G. A. Franz [the decedent] as a remainderman was entitled to but one-tenth of the corpus of the estate, the entire estate was therefore augmented ten times this amount, or in the amount of $871,185.70. This increase in the appellant’s estate was purely incidental; and the court must recognize the fact that G. A. Franz’s estate by this same litigation lost one-half of $871,185.70 or $435,592.85. If we subtract the “benefits”, $87,118.57, from the “detriment”, $435,592.85, the litigation resulted in a net loss to the estate of G. A. Franz of $348,474.28.”
1 later decision 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.