Simmons v. Beatty’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 1964
7 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 Ellison v. Georgia Railroad · McLeod v. Reid · Scovill v. Glasner · Davis v. . New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad Co. · Hurst v. Detroit City Railway
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“So long as a plaintiff pleads but one wrong, he does not set up more than one cause of action. . . A single wrong may, however, be composed of numerous elements and shown by various facts. . . The facts are merely the means, and not the end. . . Different facts may be alleged, separately or cumulatively, to show the same wrong, and the number and variety of the facts alleged will not make more than one cause of action, so long as but one wrong is shown.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Milton v. Milton“No amendment adding a new and distinct cause of action . . . shall be allowed unless expressly provided for by law.”
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.