Simplex, Inc. v. Diversified Energy Systems, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
847 F.2d 1290 · 1988
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 3 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably Thompson v. Boggs (1994), United States v. Angwin (2001)
39 federal appellate · 3 district · 12 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 Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Henry v. City of Detroit Manpower Department · John W. Wilson v. Volkswagen of America, Inc., a New York Corporation and Volkswagenwerk, A. G., a Foreign Corporation, Wolfsburg, Western Germany · Strauss v. Douglas Aircraft Co. · Gm Brod Company Inc v. US Home Corporation
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[B]efore a court may admit evidence of habit, the offering party must establish the degree of specificity and frequency of uniform response that ensures more than a mere 'tendency' to act in a given manner, but rather, conduct that is 'semi-automatic' in nature.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]e are cautious in permitting the admission of habit or pattern-of-conduct evidence under [NRS 48.059 or its federal analogue] Rule 406 because it necessarily engenders the very real possibility that such evidence will be used to establish a party's propensity to act in conformity with its general character,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“describes one's regular response to a repeated specific situation.”
3 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.