Simmons v. Leonard’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Gillis v. Gillis (1895), Tobin v. Haack (1900)
27 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That the contested paper was duly executed as the will of Margaret Simmons is not established by sufficient competent proof. . . . The law prescribes the quantum of proof requisite in such a case; and neither the jury, nor Court sitting as a jury, is allowed to find in favor of the will on less evidence than that prescribed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fann v. Fann“the certificate to which their names are attached (is) in proper form and reciting all necessary facts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fann v. Fann
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.