Simson v. . Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1877
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1977 · most notably Constable v. National Steamship Co. (1894), Pennsylvania Steel Co. v. New York City Ry. Co. (1912)
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 49 state decisions — followed in 15 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.
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ It is not every promise made by one to another, from the performance of which a benefit may inure to a third, which gives a right of action to such third person, he being neither privy to the contract nor to the consideration. The contract must be made for his benefit as its object, and he must be the party intended to be benefited.””
6 later decisions 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.