Carlsdotter v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
17 F. 456 · 1883
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1985
7 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 Wilson v. McNamee · Crapo v. Kelly · Ex parte Gordon · Holmes v. O. & C. Ry. Co. · Micou v. National Bank
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Upon the whole case, considering the natural equity and reason of the matter, and the weight of authority as determined by the late adjudicated cases in the admiralty courts of the' United States, I am inclined to hold that the ancient common law rule, 1 actio personalis moritur aim persona,’ if it ever prevailed in the admiralty law of this country, has been so modified by the statutory enactments of the various States and the progress of the age, that now the admiralty courts ‘ are permitted to estimate the damages which a particular person has sustained by the wrongful killing of another,’ and enforce an adequate .remedy. At all events, as the question is an open one, it is best, to resolve the doubts in favor of what all the judges consider to be ‘ natural equity and justice.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. The Harrisburg“are permitted to estimate the damages which a particular person has sustained by the wrongful killing of another,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. The Harrisburg“natural equity and the general principles of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. The Harrisburg
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.