Simpson v. Dixon’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently January 2021 · most notably Hough v. Leonard (1993), Russell v. Board of County Commissioners (1997)
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.
Relationships
Relies on City of Sapulpa v. Land · Tate v. Browning-Ferris, Inc. · TRW/Reda Pump v. Brewington · Reynolds v. Porter · People ex rel. Grinnell v. Hoffman
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The Legislature shall not, except as otherwise provided in this Constitution, pass any local or special law ...: * * * ⅜ * * Regulating the practice or jurisdiction of ... in judicial proceedings or inquiry before the courts ... or other tribunals.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. Ford · Cooper v. Booher“[clharter provisions, which have the force of a city's fundamental law, supersede state law only when they affect a subject that is deemed to lie exclusively within municipal (or local) concern.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“A conflict exists between a state enactment and a municipal charter or ordinance when both contain either express or implied provisions that are inconsistent or irreconcilable with one another. There is no conflict if one is silent on the issue and the other speaks to it. [Emphasis supplied]”
1 later decision 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.