Simon v. Sargent’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently February 2016
6 federal appellate · 14 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Dennis v. California · Maxwell v. Bishop · 42 Wis. 2d 42 - Bisenius v. Karns · Love v. Bell · 42 Ill. 2d 446 - The People v. Fries
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"From the moment of the injury, society picks the person up off the highway; delivers him to a municipal hospital and municipal doctors; provides him with unemployment compensation if, after recovery, he cannot replace his lost job, and, if the injury causes permanent disability, may assume the responsibility for his and his family's continued subsistence. We do not understand a state of mind that permits plaintiff to think that only he himself is concerned." ( 346 F. Supp. 277, 279 , aff'd (1972), 409 U.S. 1020 , 34 L.Ed.2d 312 , 93 S.Ct. 463 .)”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Finally, we see no merit in plaintiff's claim that the statute denies him the equal protection of the laws. It is not difficult to discern a rational basis for the legislature's distinction between motorcyclists and, for example, automobile drivers, whose vehicle affords them substantially more protection than does a motorcycle.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Cotton“the legislature was unreasonable in linking protective headgear to safer motorcycling.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Cotton
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.