Selaster v. Simmons’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently July 1993 · most notably E. L. Jones Construction Co. v. Noland (1970), McFarlin v. Hall (1980)
6 federal appellate · 19 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 Tourette v. Tourette · Cosper v. the Valley Bank · Bortle v. Osborne · Southwest Cotton Co. v. Ryan · Merritt v. Newkirk
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“However, all these things took place in the presence of the trial court, and upon a motion for new trial were urged upon that court. The motion was denied, and in such denial they were necessarily held not to have prejudiced defendants' rights. The supervision of trials is committed to the trial court, and in matters involving the conduct of counsel, as well as other trial matters, unless it clearly appears that some prejudice has resulted, we think we should defer to the decision and judgment of the trial court. That court had the whole picture before it and was better qualified to pass on the question, and having done so, by the denial of the motion for new trial, we accept its decision and judgment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““Under such circumstances, we think the community, consisting- of the husband and wife, was liable for the wife’s tort, and that the judgment properly ran against both of them. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chapman v. Salazar
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.