Simms v. Hobbs’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently March 2013
2 federal appellate · 12 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 International Shoe Co. v. Washington · McGee v. International Life Insurance · Pennoyer v. Neff · Hess v. Pawloski · 22 Ill. 2d 432 - Gray v. American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the full faith and credit clause ... requires that the judgment of a State court which had jurisdiction of the parties and the subject-matter in suit, shall be given in the courts of every other State the same credit, validity and effect which it has in the State where it was rendered, and be equally conclusive upon the merits ... This rule is applicable where a judgment in one State is based upon a cause of action which arose in the State in which it is sought to be enforced, as well as in other cases; and the judgment, if valid where rendered, must be enforced in such other State although repugnant to its own statutes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The foundations of jurisdiction include the interest that a state has in providing redress in its own courts against persons who inflict injuries upon, or otherwise incur obligations to, those within the ambit of state’s legitimate protective policy, and limits on exercise of jurisdiction are not ‘mechanical or quantitative’ but are to be found only in requirements that provisions made for such purpose must be fair and reasonable in circumstances and give to defendant adequate notice of claim against him and adequate and realistic opportunity to appear and be heard in his defense.””
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.