Dow v. Legg’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 1985
2 federal appellate · 10 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 Michigan Central Railroad v. Vreeland · American Railroad Company of Porto Rico v. Federico Didricksen · McKay v. New England Dredging Co. · Judge v. Wallen · Ensor v. Compton
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`The loss under the statute is still a pecuniary loss....' "A pecuniary loss has been defined as `a loss of money, or of something by which money or something of money value may be acquired.' ... .... "`... The damages recoverable are limited to such loss as results to them because they have been deprived of a reasonable expectation of pecuniary benefits by the wrongful death of the injured employee....'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A pecuniary loss has been defined as `a loss of money, or of something by which money or something of money value may be acquired.' ... ....”
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.