Bengston v. Siems’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 1948
6 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 State ex rel. Ernest Fleckenstein Brewing Co. v. District Court · Pushor v. American Railway Express Co. · State ex rel. Crookston Lumber Co. v. District Court of Beltrami County · Bartkey v. Sanitary Farm Dairies · Geo. A. Lowe Co. v. Industrial Commission
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There the person killed was a minor, and the parents were entitled to his earnings, and they were received regularly.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tomhave v. Galena
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.