Simms v. Floyd’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 1984
10 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.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a matter of every day occurrence in our courts where two or more parties are sued, or indicted, that one party employs one attorney and another some other, and yet it is not expected, or indeed is it true, that each of the parties renders himself liable for the fees of the others because notice is not given that he is not to be held liable.” See, also, Chicago, St. C. & M. R. Co. v. Larned, 26 Ill. 218 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. O'Connor v. Erickson
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.