Simler v. Conner’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
372 federal appellate · 141 district · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 986 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Parklane Hosiery Co. v. Shore (1979), The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. Shipman (1969)
372 federal appellate · 141 district · 49 state decisions — followed in 15 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedSimler v. Conner (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Beacon Theaters Inc v. C Westover · Dairy Queen, Inc. v. Wood · Palmer v. Hoffman · Byrd v. Blue Ridge Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc.
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 986 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n diversity cases, of course, the substantive dimension of the claim asserted finds its source in state law ... but the characterization of that state-created claim as legal or equitable for purposes of whether a right to jury trial is indicated must be made by recourse to federal law.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the right to a jury trial in federal courts is to be determined as a matter of federal law.”
7 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.