Simpson v. Tobin’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
4 district · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently November 2022 · most notably State v. Rhines (1996), Dahl v. Sittner (1991)
4 district · 48 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 Kneip v. Herseth · Daugaard v. Baltic Cooperative Building Supply Ass'n · State v. Morgan · Ogle v. Circuit Court, Tenth (Now Sixth) Judicial Circuit · McMacken v. State
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if [the remainder] can stand by [itself] and if it appears that the [L]egislature would have intended the remainder to take effect without the invalidated section”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`There is a strong presumption that the laws enacted by the legislature are constitutional and the presumption is rebutted only when it clearly, palpably and plainly appears that the statute violates a provision of the constitution. Further, the party challenging the constitutionality of a statute bears the burden of proving beyond a reasonable doubt that the statute violates a state or federal constitutional provision.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Upon written demand of at least fifteen taxpayers of the county, the state’s attorney shall take an appeal from any action of such board if such action relates to the interests or affairs of the county at large or any portion thereof ... if he deems it to the interest of the county so to do....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.