Alexander v. Whitman’s Empirical Analysis
114 F.3d 1392 · 1997
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 11 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Nicholas v. Pennsylvania State University (2000), Curay-Cramer v. Ursuline Academy of Wilmington, Delaware, Inc. (2006)
22 federal appellate · 11 district · 15 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Santosky v. Kramer · Hishon v. King & Spalding · Roe v. Wade · Daniels v. Williams
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he fundamental purpose of a wrongful death action is to compensate survivors for the pecuniary losses they suffer because of the tortious conduct of others,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a statute withstands a substantive due process challenge if the state identifies a legitimate state interest that the legislature could rationally conclude was served by the statute.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[i]t is not the relationship that is affected ..., it is the ability to recover for the loss of that relationship.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Donna S. Marie, (A Fictitious Name of a Real Individual), Individually, on Her Own Behalf, and on Behalf of All Women Similarly Situated Donna Santa Marie, on Behalf of Her Own Child and All Others Similarly Situated Teresa H. Jimenez, on Behalf of Herself and on Behalf of Her Patients [Both Mothers · 354 N.J. Super. 500 - Acuna v. Turkish
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.