Simpson v. Fuller’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 2005
2 district · 13 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 Gay v. Rabon · Mentesana v. Fabricators International, Inc. · South Central District of Pentecostal Church of God of America, Inc. v. Bruce-Rogers 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he statute bears a fair and substantial relation to the object of the legislation, which is to encourage the resolution of claims without judicial proceedings, thereby reducing the cost of resolving claims and consequently the cost of [malpractice] insurance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jackson v. Ozment
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.