Covey v. Eppes’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
April 1975
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Haddock Ex Rel. Wiggins v. Florida Motor Lines Corp. · Hadley v. City of Tallahassee · Fuller v. Darnell · Eppes v. Covey
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"(1) Whenever the death of any minor child shall be caused by the wrongful act, negligence, carelessness or default of any individual [etc.] * * *, the father of such minor child, or if the father be not living, the mother may maintain an action against such individual [etc.] * * *, and may recover, not only for the loss of services of such minor child, but in addition thereto, such sum for the mental pain and suffering of the parent (or both parents) if they survive, as the jury may assess."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. Legree
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.