Simmons v. Blair’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently January 1974 · most notably Reed v. Calcasieu Paper Company (1957), 90 So. 2d 409 - Borders v. Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Co. (1956)
2 federal appellate · 26 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 Bronson v. Harris Ice Cream Co. · Yarbrough v. Great American Indemnity Co. · Crawford v. Tampa Inter-Ocean S. S. Co. · McCrady v. Sebastian
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If we were to consider that the tendered operation was to be regarded in the nature, as to the seriousness thereof, of a tonsillectomy, an appendectomy or an abdominal operation for the removal of a tumor, it certainly could not in the light of the jurisprudence of this State be considered such an operation that the employee's refusal to undergo it would be unreasonable or arbitrary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“protrudes to the medial side of the knee joint causing a tumor mass or growth at that point.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a fractured internal semilunar cartilage”
1 later decision 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.