Simons v. Brashears Transfer and Storage’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 2014
19 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 First Nat. Bank of Alex v. Southland Production Co. · Cushing v. Seymour, Sabin & Co. · Aultman & Taylor MacHinery Co. v. Fuss · Jahns v. Nolting · Litz v. Exchange Bank
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Lits ... we held that a lienor's right to sell the property upon which he has a Tien was suspended during the interim between death of the owner and appointment of a personal representative.... A lienor has no title His power to transfer title exists only by reason of his contractual or statutory right to sell. If such right does not exist, or is suspended, then it follows that he cannot transfer title.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[wle have held numerous times that we would not consider constitutional questions not raised in the trial court unless the public interest and welfare so requires.”
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.