Simpson v. Simpson’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
1 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently November 1983 · most notably Cameron v. Cameron (1982), Lang v. Lang (1920)
1 district · 26 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The declaration of trust, whether written or oral, must be reasonably certain in its material terms; and this requisite of certainty includes the subject-matter or property embraced within the trust, the beneficiaries or persons in whose behalf it is created, the nature and quantity of interests which they are to have, and the manner in which the trust is to be performed. If the language is so vague, general, or equivocal that any of these necessary elements of the trust is left in real uncertainty, then the trust must fail.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“may be assigned to the innocent party, either absolutely or for a limited period,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stearns v. Stearns
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.