Simons v. Marshall’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS v. MATTHEW ANDREWS (2018), Langford v. Norris (2010)
6 federal appellate · 33 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 Santiago v. United States · Fireman's Insurance v. Arkansas State Claims Commission · State v. Mitchell · Grine v. Board of Trustees · Fegans v. Norris
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) It is declared to be the public policy of the State of Arkansas that all counties, municipal corporations, school districts, special improvement districts, and all other political subdivisions of the state and any of their boards, commissions, agencies, authorities, or other governing bodies shall be | ¡¡immune from liability and from suit for damages except to the extent that they may be covered by liability insurance. (b) No tort action shall lie against any such political subdivision because of the acts of its agents or employees.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is true that in law malice is not necessarily personal hate. It is rather an intent and disposition to do a wrongful act greatly injurious to another. Malice is also defined as the intentional doing of a wrongful act without just cause or excuse, with an intent to inflict an injury or under circumstances that the law will imply an evil intent.... A conscious violation of the law ... which operates to the prejudice of another person. A condition of the mind showing a heart ... fatally bent on mischief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“This court has recognized that the immunity provided by section 19-10-305 is similar to that provided by the Supreme Court for federal civil-rights claims ... [A]n official is immune from suit if his actions did not violate clearly established principles of law of which a reasonable person would have knowledge. More specifically, section 19-10-305(a) provides state employees with statutory immunity from civil liability for non-malicious acts occurring within the course of their employment.”
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.