Simpson v. Simpson’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably Moore v. Asente (2003), Vest v. State Ex Rel. New Mexico Human Services Department (1993)
29 state decisions — followed in 12 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.
Relationships
Relies on 250 Pa. Super. 168 - Spells v. Spells · Gribble v. Gribble · Looper v. McManus · 56 Ill. App. 3d 854 - Taraboletti v. Taraboletti · Chandler v. Chandler
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A person standing in loco parentis to a child is one who has put himself in the situation of a lawful parent by assuming the obligations incident to the parental relation, without going through the formalities necessary to a legal adoption, and the rights, duties, and liabilities of such person are the same as those of the lawful parent. The assumption of the relation is a question of intention, which may be shown by the acts and declarations of the person alleged to stand in that relation." 46 C.J., Parent and Child, § 174, p. 1334.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Fitch v. Burns · B.F. v. T.D.““A nonparent cannot legitimately invoke the Court’s jurisdiction on the issue of custody by seizing a child from a parent prior to filing a petition for custody.” 586 S.W.2d at 35, n. 1 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Sumner v. Roark · Moore v. Asente“in accordance with the best interests of the child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Srd v. Tlb
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.