18 Wash. 2d 358 - Skeels v. Davidson’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 1983
3 federal appellate · 10 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 Ihl v. Forty-Second Street & Grand Street Ferry Railroad · Hedrick v. Ilwaco Railway & Navigation Co. · Sweeten v. Pacific Power & Light Co. · Atkeson v. Jackson Estate · Kranzusch v. Trustee 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.
““ ‘There is, perhaps, no other phase of the law of damages which is in so unsatisfactory a state as that concerned with the rule governing damages for the wrongful death of a child, under a statute such as our own which creates the right of action, but prescribes no measure of recovery.’ (Italics ours.)””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“If you decide from the evidence that the plaintiff is entitled to damages for the loss of his minor child, you should give consideration to the following as the measure of damages to be awarded. You should determine the value of the services of said child from the date of the death until he would have attained the age of majority, less the cost to his parents of his support and maintenance during this interval. In determining the value of the deceased child’s services, you must take into consideration the child’s health, his mental and physical capacity, both present and prospective, as well as the situation of his parents. In determining the value of the deceased child’s services, you should not consider any distress, sorrow or mental suffering of the parents caused by the death of said child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The cost of his maintenance, even up to the time of his very death, must have been great. Among other things, it incidentally appears that he had been under the care of one private physician alone for a period of two years. It is argued, and with good reason, that, by any conceivable pecuniary standard, the child was definitely shown to be a liability, and it is stressed that the jury was correctly instructed that it could not consider the distress, sorrow, or mental suffering of its parents.”
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.