Simms v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently February 1989 · most notably People v. Richetti (1951), Casper v. Lee (1952)
41 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 Bronson v. Schulten · Cross v. Gould · State ex rel. Potter v. Riley · Jeude v. Sims · Mathews v. O'Donnell
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.
“A judgment rendered against an insane person without the intervention of a guardian; where a defendant dies after service of process and before judgment; where a married woman was sued without her husband being joined and judgment rendered against her (before the Married Women's Act); judgment against an infant without a guardian ad litem .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Spotts v. Spotts“and doubtless would not be on the ground of accident or mistake, those being distinct grounds of relief in equity;”
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.