Simonson v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Thomas v. Oldham (1995), Dunleavy v. Miller (1993)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 58 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Herring v. New York · Graham v. Rolandson · Barmeyer v. Montana Power Co. · Aasheim v. Humberger · Cashin v. Northern Pacific Railway 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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]ven the wording of a well-drawn [sudden emergency] instruction intimates that ordinary rules of negligence do not apply to the circumstances constituting the claimed `sudden emergency.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'The circumstances' includes the pressure and split-second decision-making which accompanies the crisis prior to some automobile accidents.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Young v. Clark · Miller v. Eichhorn“If the conditions of the re-creation are “substantially similar” to those at the time of the accident and the re-creation has been properly foundationed, there is no abuse of discretion by the trial judge in admitting the evidence.”
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.