4 Ariz. App. 232 - Simpson v. Heiderich’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably 42 Ill. 2d 425 - The PEOPLE v. Noble (1969), 8 Ariz. App. 351 - Ulan v. Richtars (1968)
27 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 Hickman v. Taylor · Schlagenhauf v. Holder · Sibbach v. Wilson & Co. · 59 Cal. 2d 722 - People v. Modesto · Jenkins v. United States
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The only instance in which exclusion of medical testimony is authorized is when the doctor himself failed or refused to make such [a] report after being ordered by the court to do so.... [T]he court’s discretion to exclude the testimony could be exercised only after (1) refusal of the examining party to deliver the report, (2) motion and notice, (3) an order requiring delivery and (4) the physician’s failure or refusal to comply....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The whole object of discovery is that mutual knowledge of all the relevant facts gathered by both parties is essential to proper litigation.” 4 Ariz.App. at 236 , 419 P.2d 362 .”
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.