Simon v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 6 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently January 2012 · most notably Jacron Sales Co. v. Sindorf (1976), General Motors Corp. v. Piskor (1976)
6 federal appellate · 6 district · 42 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 Fresh v. Cutter · Beck v. Baltimore Transit Co. · Thompson v. Upton · Evening News Co. v. Bowie · Pollitt v. Brush-Moore Newspapers, Inc.
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A conditional privilege exists] 'when the occasion shows that the communicating party and the recipient have a mutual interest in the subject matter, or some duty with respect thereto.’”
2 later decisions 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.