Thomas v. Doyle’s Empirical Analysis
187 F.2d 207 · 1950
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 4 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently September 2014 · most notably Jones v. Rogers Memorial Hospital (1971), Emmett v. Eastern Dispensary & Casualty Hospital (1967)
23 federal appellate · 4 district · 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 Mammoth Oil Co. v. United States · New York Mutual Life Insurance v. Armstrong · Allore v. Jewell · Supervisors v. Kennicott · Stephen Harding v. Asa Handy
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“does not possess a fixed and narrow meaning in the law. This court has construed its use in another section of the D.C. Code [present § 14-307], to encompass both executors or administrators and heirs where there is no controversy between them. That Congress did not intend to limit the right to bring an action under § 12-101 [the Survival Statute] only to executors or administrators is also shown by reference to the terminology used in the wrongful death statute, § 16-1202, where such a result was achieved by use of the more restrictive phrase”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“. . . The terms `legal representatives' is not necessarily restricted to the personal representatives of one deceased, but is sufficiently broad to cover all persons who, with respect to his property, stand in his place and represent his interests, whether transferred to them by his act or by operation of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Supreme Court has recognized the different scope of the two terms in New York Mutual Life Ins. Co. v. Armstrong, 1886, 117 U.S. 591, 597 , 6 S.Ct. 877, 879 , 29 L.Ed. 997 , . . . where the Court stated,”
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.