Sims v. Sims’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
2 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently November 1976
2 district · 18 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 Bennett v. . Bennett · Foot v. Card · Haynes v. Nowlin · Seaver v. Adams · Knapp v. Wing
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“equality of remedy as an independent suitor,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ ‘Nor can I allow that the loss of consortium or conjugal society can give a cause of action to the husband alone. [* * *] I think it may be a loss which the law may recognize to the wife as well as to the husband’.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Yonner v. Adams“that the right of consortium was recognized by the common law as an existing right in the married woman, however, but incapable of enforcement owing to the common law doctrine of identity of personality,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.