Simpson v. James’s Empirical Analysis
903 F.2d 372 · 1990
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Federal Deposit Insurance v. Dawson (1993), Frame v. City of Arlington (2011)
15 federal appellate · 1 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 The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. Shipman · Davis v. Alaska · Hudson v. Palmer · Willis v. Maverick · Woods v. William M. Mercer, Inc.
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.
“Under Rule 8 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, it is enough that the plaintiff plead sufficient facts to put the defense on notice of the theories on which the complaint is based.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although the evidence of [the attorney's] negligence is not overwhelming, we are not persuaded that the jury's conclusion is unreasonable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tracy Parker Streber“federal law governs the pleading requirements of a case in federal court.”
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.