Simons v. Simons’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 1966
14 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ The whole matter was simply a shameless bargain, and, whether right or wrong, he must now abide by it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Orth v. Orth
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.