Simpson v. Simpson’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
2 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably 28 Pa. Commw. 531 - City of Philadelphia v. Kenny (1977), 187 Ga. App. 109 - Ostroff v. Coyner (1988)
2 district · 37 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 46 Wis. 2d 682 - Molloy v. Molloy · Harwell v. Harwell · Howard v. Smith · Ralph Hegman Company v. Transamerica Insurance Co. · Gravett v. State
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an implied admission that a truthful answer would tend to prove that the witness had committed the act. The administration of justice and the search for truth demand [] that an inference may be drawn that witness’ testimony would be unfavorable to [her] in a civil action in which the privilege is invoked to protect [herself]. This is particularly true in a child custody contest heard by a trial judge with broad discretion when, the inference corroborates other proof of alleged illicit conduct between the parties which affects the welfare and interests of minor children. 4”
2 later decisions 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.