Simons v. Kidd’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently October 2001 · most notably Bego v. Gordon (1987), Schwab v. Ariyoshi (1977)
2 federal appellate · 2 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.
Relationships
Relies on Rowe v. Richards · Petersen v. Kemper · Mattson v. Astoria · Rowe v. Richards · Brown v. Wightman
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here no right of action is given, * * * or no remedy exists, under either the common law or some statute, [Article VI, Sec. 20] * * * create[s] none.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Behrns v. Burke · Bego v. Gordon“All courts shall be open, and every man for an injury done him in his property, person or reputation, shall have remedy by due course of law, and right and justice, administered without denial or delay.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Behrns v. Burke · Bego v. Gordon““Whenever the' death or injury of a person shall be caused by a wrongful act, neglect or default, and the act, neglect, or default is such as would, have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereto, if death had not ensued, then and in every such case, the corporation which, or the person who, would have been liable, if death had not ensued, or the administrator or executor of the estate of such person as such administrator or executor, shall be liable to an action for damages, notwithstanding the death of the person injured, * * SDC 37.2201, as amended by Ch. 172, Laws of 1947. “Every such action 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 ten 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. * * *” SDC 37.2203, as amended by Ch. 173, Laws of 1947.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Simons v. Kidd
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.