Ross v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
2 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 1966
2 district · 11 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 Chicago Co v. Wells-Dickey Trust Co · 15 La. App. 603 - Horrell v. Gulf & Valley Cotton Oil Co. · O'Donnell v. Wells · Betz v. Kansas City Southern Railway Co. · McFarland v. Oregon Electric Ry. 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Alaska Compiled Laws: “§ 61-7-3. Action for wrongful death: “Disposition of amount recovered. When the death of a person is caused by the wrongful act or omission of another, the personal representatives of the former may maintain an action therefor against the latter if the former might have maintained an action had he lived, * * *, and the amount recovered, if any, shall be exclusively for the benefit of the decedent’s husband or wife and children when he or she leaves a husband, wife, or children, him or her surviving; * *”
1 later decision 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.