Collins v. Simms’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Tennessee-Carolina Transportation, Inc. v. Strick Corp. (1974), D & W, INC. v. City of Charlotte (1966)
50 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 Hayes v. City of Wilmington · Pinnix v. . Griffin · Moore v. Humphrey · Bruce v. O'Neal Flying Service, Inc. · Maddox v. Brown
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[w]hen an appellate court passes on questions and remands the case for further proceedings to the trial court, the questions therein actually presented and necessarily involved in determining the case and the decision on those questions become the law of the case, both in subsequent proceedings in the trial court and on a subsequent appeal, provided the same facts and the same questions, which were determined in the previous appeal, are involved in the second appeal."”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“into consideration the circumstances of the particular case, and the necessity for doing justice[,]”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]n our judicial system the Superior Court is a court subordinate to the Supreme Court. Upon appeal our mandate is binding upon it and must be strictly followed without variation or departure. No judgment other than that directed or permitted by the appellate court may be entered. Otherwise, litigation would never be ended, and the supreme tribunal of the state would be shorn of authority over inferior tribunals.”
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.