Allison v. Simmons’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 2008 · most notably Hofer v. Lavender (1984), Fairfield Insurance Co. v. Stephens Martin Paving, LP (2008)
4 federal appellate · 21 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 Greever v. Persky · Northeast Texas Motor Lines, Inc. v. Hodges · Northeast Texas Motor Lines, Inc. v. Hodges · Yellow Cab & Baggage Co. v. Green · Yellow Cab and Baggage Company v. Green
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Compensation allowed by law in addition to actual damages by way of punishment, and as an example for the good of the public, and may also include compensation for inconvenience, reasonable attorney’s fees, and other losses too remote to be considered under actual damages.””
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.