Simmons v. James’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
January 1969
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bourgeois v. Mississippi School Supply Co. · South Highlands Infirmary v. Imperial Laundry Co. · Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Quick · Stovall v. Jepsen · Brown v. Bond
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If a servant steps aside from the master’s business for some purpose of his own disconnected from his employment, the relationship of master and servant is temporarily suspended and ‘this is so no matter how short the time, and the master is not liable for his acts during such time’.” [Citing authorities].”
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.