Simmons v. Boyd’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently March 2000 · most notably Smithey v. Sinclair Refining Co. (1961), Willard v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. (1973)
3 federal appellate · 35 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 Smith v. Turner · Bostic v. Whited · Rinehart & Dennis Co. v. Brown · Aronovitch v. Ayres · Brann v. F. W. Woolworth Co.
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In actions to recover damages for personal injuries we have held that an inadvertent reference to insurance coverage is harmless error if it appears that the parties have had a fair trial on the merits and substantial justice has been done. In contrast, we have held that it is reversible error not to grant a mistrial where the reference to insurance is deliberate and for improper purposes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Forsberg v. Harris
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.