Simpson v. Edmiston’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2017 · most notably Blair v. City of Chicago (1906), Rich v. Braxton (1895)
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 49 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 Forqueran v. Donnally · Warren v. Syme · Williamson v. Russell · Renick v. Ludington · Barton's Heirs v. Gilchrist
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is fully settled in this State that a court of equity has 'jurisdiction to set aside a void tax deed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rich v. Braxton
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.