Simpson v. Superior Court’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
1 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably 85 Cal. App. 2d 54 - Lori, Ltd. v. Wolfe (1948), 49 Cal. App. 3d 710 - Berard Construction Co. v. Municipal Court (1975)
1 district · 36 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(2-4) * * * The privilege of dismissing an action as provided by Section 581 is designed to afford to the plaintiff a certain freedom of action within the limits prescribed that cannot be circumscribed indirectly. Any attempt to wrest such control in any manner except as provided and clearly intended by its provisions, is ineffective for all purposes. “In the light of the record herein, the court was without power to entertain the defendant’s motion to set aside the dismissals and such action, as well as the procedure that followed, was without legal sanction and void.””
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.