Holton v. Daly’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 89 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably 22 Ill. 2d 73 - Knierim v. Izzo (1961), Spence v. Staras (1974)
5 federal appellate · 89 state decisions — followed in 18 states
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 Whitford v. . the Panama Railroad Company · City of Chicago v. Major · City of Chicago v. Scholten · President of Ottawa v. County of La Salle · Chicago & Rock Island Railroad v. Morris
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Every such action shall be brought by and in the names of the personal representatives of such deceased person, and the amount recovered in every such action shall be for the exclusive benefit of the widow and next of kin of such deceased person, and shall be distributed to such widow and next of kin in the proportion provided by law in relation to the distribution of personal property left by persons dying intestate and in every such action the jury may give such damages as they shall deem a fair and just compensation with reference to the pecuniary injuries resulting from such death, to the wife and next of kin of such deceased person, not exceeding the sum of $15,000 [then $10,000] : Provided, that every such action shall be commenced within one year after the death of such person.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““And it has accordingly since been held the declaration must aver, .and the proof must establish, a wrongful act, neglect or default of defendant, causing the death of the intestate under such circumstances as would entitle him to maintain an action if death had not ensued, .and the fact of survivorship, and the name or names of widow or next • of kin.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stanovich v. State““In addition to actions which survive by the common law, the following actions also survive: Actions of replevin, actions to recover damages for an injury to persons (except slander and libel) * * Hurd’s Rev. St. 1903, Ill. e. 3, § 123.”
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.