Clark v. Prime’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 3 state decisions

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.

1. “It was reasonably to be inferred that she took such care of her children as a mother usually takes. . . . Under circumstances such as are here presented we think there is a reasonable inference that the continuance of the mother’s life would have resulted in substantial pecuniary-benefit to the children. . . . “[Ijnfant children sustain a loss from the death of their parents, and especially of their mother, of a different kind. She owes them the duty of nurture and of intellectual, moral, and physical training, and of such instruction as can only proceed from a mother.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rodriquez v. United States

2. “It is certainly possible, and not only so, but highly probable, that a mother's nurture, instruction and training, if judiciously administered, will operate favorably upon the worldly prospects and pecuniary interests of the child. The object of such training and education is not simply to prepare them for another world, but to act well their part in this, and to promote their temporal welfare.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Karen E. McGrath Administratrix Ad Prosequendum of the Estate of Donald v. McGrath Deceased v. Erie Lackawanna Railroad Company