Hall v. Simmons’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably 160 N.C. App. 664 - Long v. Long (2003), In re the Foreclosure of the Deed of Trust of Vogler Realty, Inc. (2012)
32 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 Angrist v. United States · State v. Williams · Brady v. Fulghum · Arnold Const. Co., Inc. v. Arizona Board of Regents · Sample v. Morgan
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]ignificance and effect should, if possible, ... be accorded every part of the act, including every section, paragraph, sentence or clause, phrase, and word.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The rules of statutory construction require presumptions that the legislature inserted every part of a provision for a purpose and that no part is redundant.”
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.