Beard v. Skeldon’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 1978
18 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The right of action is conferred in the alternative, and when one party entitled to sue, brings a suit, all damages which may be recovered on account of the death, must of necessity be obtained in the judgment rendered in the suit. ’ ’”
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.