Wilson v. Massengill’s Empirical Analysis
124 F.2d 666 · 1942
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1999
11 federal appellate · 3 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 Whaley v. Catlett · Theroux v. Northern Pac. R. · Maki v. George R. Cooke Co. · Davidson Benedict Co. v. Severson · In Re Estate of Mayo
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 which a person, who dies from injuries received from another, ... would, have had against the wrongdoer, in case death had not ensued, shall not abate or be extinguished by his death but shall pass to his ... next of kin.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“within one year after cause of action accrued.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hutto v. Benson
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.