Simmons v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably 110 Wash. 2d 752 - Grange Insurance Ass'n v. State (1988), Dolnack v. Metro-North Commuter Railroad (1994)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 85 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 International Shoe Co. v. Washington · World-Wide Volkswagen Corp. v. Woodson · Hanson v. Denckla · Milliken v. Meyer · Starnes v. Penrod Drilling 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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““1. The non-resident defendant must do some act or consummate some transaction within the forum or perform some act by which he purposefully avails himself of the privilege of conducting activities in the forum, thereby invoking its laws. “2. The claim must be one which arises out of or results from the defendant’s forum-related activities. “3. Exercise of jurisdiction must be reasonable.””
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) Subject to jurisdiction. All persons found within the state of Montana are subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of this state. In addition, any person is subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of this state as to any claim for relief arising from the doing personally, through an employee, or through an agent, of any of the following acts: (a) the transaction of any business within this state; (b) the commission of any act which results in accrual within this state of a tort action ....”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“`not a rule of law, but one of practice, convenience, and expediency.' It does not of its own force compel a particular course of action. Rather, it is an expression of one state's entirely voluntarily decision to defer to the policy of another.”
3 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.