Alderman v. Ford’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently September 2004 · most notably PAPIEVES Et Ux. v. Kelly (1970), Hoard v. Shawnee Mission Medical Center (1983)
2 federal appellate · 8 district · 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 Larson v. Chase · Burney v. Children's Hospital · Darcy v. . Presbyterian Hospital · 1 Smith & H. 295 - Hill v. Travelers Insurance · Lonergan v. William Small & Co.
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . So in this case, the plaintiff had a right to the body of her dead husband in the condition in which it was when he died. She alone could give authority for an autopsy on that body, except in case where death might occur under such circumstances as to warrant the coroner in conducting an autopsy, a circumstance we do not have here. . . .” (pp. 702-03.) (Emphasis supplied.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Defendant Ford included in his demurrer the ground that the petition showed on its face that it was barred by the statute of limitations since it shows that it was not brought within one year of the date when the cause of action arose. As will be noted, we have concluded that this action is for any injury to the rights of another and could be maintained within two years of the time when the action arose. (See G.S. 1935, 60-306, third. . . .)” (Emphasis added.) 146 Kan. at 703 .”
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.