Simonson v. Grant’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Beers v. Wolf (1893), George A. Hormel & Co. v. American Bonding Co. (1910)
2 federal appellate · 29 state decisions — followed in 16 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 Bragg v. Shain · United States ex rel. Davis v. Shanks · Price v. Doyle · Tomlinson v. Simpson · Farmers' & Mechanics' Bank of Michigan v. Evans
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.
““It is not sufficient that he may sustain no'injury by a change in the contract, or that it may even be for his-benefit. He has a right to stand upon the very terms of his contract; and if he does not assent to any variation of it, and a variation is made, it is fatal.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Backus v. Archer““In sncli cases the surety may he deprived of the inducement which the principal would have to perform the contract in due time, as the contract required.””
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.