368 F. Supp. 265 - Simon v. Lovgren’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 1991
5 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 2402 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monroe v. Pape · United States v. Yellow Cab Co. · Marshall v. Sawyer · Howell v. Cataldi · 77 F. Supp. 477 - Gordon v. Garrson
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. .. (b) The Government of the Virgin Islands shall have the powers set forth in this Act and shall have the right to sue by such name and in cases arising out of contract, to be sued: Provided, that no tort action shall be brought against the government of the Virgin Islands or against any officer or employee thereof in his official capacity without the consent of the legislature constituted by this Act”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Quetel v. Brutus“(t)he legislature has consented to actions against the Government, (V.I. Code Ann. tit. 33, § 3408), but not to suits against officers and employees acting in their official capacity.”
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.