Simon v. Van De Hey’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 2000
9 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 Trautmann v. Charles Schefft & Sons Co. · Czerniakowski v. National Ice & Coal Co. · Schulz v. General Casualty Co. · Wisconsin Telephone Co. v. Russell · Dachelet v. Home Mutual Casualty Co.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . the duty of a driver is not to have his car under such control as to enable him to avoid accident, but it is his duty to use ordinary care to that end. . . .” Simon v. Van de Hey (1955), 269 Wis. 50, 55 , 68 N. W. 2d 529 .”
1 later decision 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.