Simpson v. Simpson’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently May 1989 · most notably Klemow v. Time Incorporated (1976), Monaco v. Montgomery Cab Co. (1965)
36 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 Madden v. Glosztonyi Savings & Trust Co. · McGinley v. Scott · Cochrane's Estate · County Construction Co. v. Livengood Construction Corp. · Maxwell v. Saylor
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Jurisdiction of subject matter relates to the competence of a court to hear and determine controversies of the general nature of the action before the court; [and] jurisdiction of the person is ordinarily acquired by service upon him of the court’s process within the territorial limits of its authority ...””
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.