Simms v. Tingle’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently March 1987 · most notably Files v. Hill (1980), Troutman v. Modlin (1965)
4 federal appellate · 26 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 Leete v. Griswold Post · Ward v. George · Brand v. Rorke · Raub v. Rowe · Seubold v. Fort Smith Special School District
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“confers a benefit only on the person to whom the ride is given and no benefits other than such are incidental to hospitality, companionship or the like [are conferred] upon the person extending the invitation, the passenger is a guest.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“We have repeatedly held that when the status of an occupant of a car is questioned and conclusions must be drawn from the evidence, then the issue is one for the jury.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Files v. Hill · Dieter v. Byrd
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.