131 Ind. App. 86 - KIRKPATRICK v. Bowyer’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably 166 W. Va. 581 - Bond v. City of Huntington (1981), Andis v. Hawkins (1986)
26 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 Whitaker, Admr. v. Borntrager · New York Cent. RR Co. v. JOHNSON, ADMX., ETC. · Lindley v. Sink · Krebiozen Research Foundation v. Beacon Press, Inc. · Northern Indiana Power Company v. West, Admx.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Dependency is based on a condition and not a promise, and such dependency must be actual, amounting to a necessitous want on the part of the beneficiary and a recognition of that necessity on the part of decedent, an actual dependence coupled with a reasonable expectation of support or with some reasonable claim to support from decedent. The mere fact that deceased occasionally contributed to the support of the beneficiary in an irregular way, is not sufficient to support the action....”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.