Kurdle v. Brookmeyer’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 1999
8 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 Wallace v. Wallace · Wolf v. Frank · Worth v. Worth · Miller v. Miller · Marshall v. Haney
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * it is generally held that the gist of the action is the loss of consortium, a term defined in Bouvier, Law Dict. (Rawle’s 3rd Revision) as ‘the right of the husband and wife respectively to the conjugal fellowship, company, coooperation and aid of the other.’ In 2 Cooley on Torts (4th Ed.), it is said to include ‘the husband’s society, affection and aid,’ and the late Judge Digges, speaking for the Court in Miller v. Miller, 165 Md. 425, 429 , 169 A. 426, 427 , said: ‘The gist of this action is the loss of society, affection, assistance, and conjugal fellowship or consortium”
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.