Simons v. Kidd’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently September 2000 · most notably In Re the Complaint of Sincere Navigation Corp. (1971), Hanisch v. Body (1958)
2 federal appellate · 23 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 Fuentes v. Tucker · Tufty v. Sioux Transit Co. · Simons v. Kidd · Hodkinson v. Parker · Johnson v. McRee
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Every action for wrongful death shall be for the exclusive benefit of the wife or husband and children, or if there be neither of them, then of the parents and next of kin of the person whose death shall be so caused; and it shall be brought in the name of the executor or regular or special administrator of the deceased person; and in every such action the jury may give such damages not exceeding in any case thirty thousand dollars as they may think proportionate to all injury resulting from such death to the persons respectively for whose benefit such action shall be brought."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lanning v. Schulte“except in extreme cases where it is the result of passion or prejudice or the jury has palpably mistaken the rules of law ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[N]o evidence is required to establish a fact conceded by answer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Owens v. Moyes
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.