Wright v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 1959
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 16 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 Holton v. Daly · McCarthy v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad · Putnam v. Savage · City of Eureka v. Merrifield · Goodyear v. Davis
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Section 420 (of the code providing for survival of actions for personal injuries), as construed with section 422, only causes the actions to survive for injury to the person, when the death does not result from such injury, but does occur from other circumstances. The right of the action under section 422 is exclusive; and an administrator could not maintain an action under section 420 and 422 for the same injury. When death results from wrongful acts, section 422 is intended solely to apply.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““If Armstrong had struck Wright with his fist, Wright would have a cause of action against Armstrong for injury to his person. And under R.S. 60-3201 such a cause of action would survive the death of Wright if he had died of smallpox or of any ailment not at all related to the personal attack made on him by Armstrong. But where the injury to the person actually causes the death of the injured person the right of redress is given by R.S. 60-3203 exclusively.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"If our present question were an open one, these decisions might well be followed. But our precedents running back for half a century cannot be ignored. Moreover, our code has been revised twice since the McCarthy case was decided, and the legislature has been content to let the law stand as this court has interpreted it during this long period." (p. 210)”
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.