Simpson v. Simpson’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 2016
2 federal appellate · 15 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 Gulbenkian v. Penn · Long v. Knox · Grigsby v. Reib · Texas Employers' Insurance Ass'n v. Elder · Nixon v. Wichita Land and Cattle Co.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant’s motion for summary judgment may (also) rest upon a clear demonstration by the record that the cause of action is barred, as a matter of law, by affirmative legal defenses such as estop-pel . . . (emphasis in original).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moore v. Neff
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.