Thompson v. Camp’s Empirical Analysis
163 F.2d 396 · 1947
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 3 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1998 · most notably Imperial Oil, Ltd. v. Drlik (1956), Wetherbee v. Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Ry. Co. (1951)
43 federal appellate · 3 district · 15 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 Lavender v. Kurn · Tiller v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad · Michigan Central Railroad v. Vreeland · Garrett v. Co · Chesapeake Ohio Railway Company v. Addie Kelly
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * In the absence of evidence that an adult child is either dependent upon or had any reasonable ground for expecting any pecuniary benefit from a continuance of the decedent’s life, a recovery on behalf of such child is excluded. Gulf, Colorado, etc., R. Co. v. McGinnis, 228 U.S. 173 , 33 S.Ct. 426 , 57 L.Ed. 785 ; Chicago, B. & Q. R. Co. v. Kelly, 8 Cir., 74 F.2d 80, 85 ; Nashville, C. & S. L. Ry. v. Anderson, 134 Tenn. 666, 682 , 185 S.W. 677 , L.R.A. 1918C, 1115 , Ann.Cas.1917D, 902. See also Michigan Central R. Co. v. Vreeland, 227 U.S. 59, 69-72 , 33 S.Ct. 192 , 57 L.Ed. 417 , Ann.Cas. 1914C, 176; Chesapeake & O. R. Co. v. Kelly, supra, 241 U.S. 485, 488 , 36 S.Ct. 630 , 60 L.Ed. 1117 , L.R.A. 1917F, 367 . * * * ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Damages in such a case 'should be equivalent to compensation for the deprivation of the reasonable expectation of pecuniary benefits that would have resulted from the continued life of the deceased', and 'that when future payments or other pecuniary benefits are to be anticipated, the verdict should be made upon the basis of their present value only', Chesapeake & O. R. Co. v. Kelly, 241 U.S. 485 at page 489, 491, [36 S.Ct. 630, 60 L.Ed. 1117]; * * Gulf, C. & S. F. Ry. v. Moser, 275 U.S. 133 [48 S.Ct. 49, 72 L.Ed. 200].”
2 later decisions 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.