Smith v. Simpson’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently April 2004
1 federal appellate · 6 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 39 Colo. App. 1 - Miller v. Carnation Co. · Atencio v. Torres · Starkey v. Bryan · 13 Md. App. 513 - Braswell v. Burrus · 156 N.J. Super. 72 - Hopkins v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Accidental bodily injury arising out of accidents occurring within this state sustained by any other person while occupying the described motor vehicle with the consent of the insured or while a pedestrian, if injured in an accident involving the described motor vehicle.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“any person not occupying or riding in or upon a motor vehicle or machine operated by a motor or engine.”
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.