Simon v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
644 F.2d 490 · 1981
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Barker v. Norman (1981), Thompson v. Chrysler Motors Corp. (1985)
30 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2671 · 28 U.S.C. § 2680
Relies on International Shoe Co. v. Washington · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · World-Wide Volkswagen Corp. v. Woodson · Hanson v. Denckla · McGee v. International Life Insurance
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In resolving this issue [personal jurisdiction over the defendant], not only the well-pleaded allegations of the complaint may be considered, but also factual showings made by way of depositions, affidavits, and exhibits adduced in the trial of the issue.”) 2 . The particular models involved in this dispute are the Models BD 601, BD 702A, BD 707, BD 728, and BD 909 Toshibafax photocopy machines. 3 . For example, the Plaintiff claims that”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the damages alleged by the complainant are solely those resulting from Simon's allegedly wrongful arrest, search and imprisonment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If, for instance, a tortfeasor used a commercial messenger (ignorant of the contents of the message delivered) to lure a Louisiana resident into Mississippi for the purpose of committing a tort upon him in Mississippi, the act of the messenger in delivering the message is no less the act of the tortfeasor than if the tortfeasor had himself personally delivered the message.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.