Eschenbach v. Benjamin’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 1986 · most notably 20 Ill. 2d 406 - Dini v. Naiditch (1960), Hitaffer v. Argonne Co. (1950)
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 28 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Feneff v. New York Central & Hudson River Railroad · Taubert v. Taubert · Willott v. Willott · Boden v. Del-Mar Garage, Inc. · Strom v. Strom
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]hough such act indirectly results in the loss or impairment of her right of consortium, and the ability of her husband to support her, she cannot maintain an action therefor; the remedy for such a wrong is to be redressed solely by an action by the husband to recover his damages; and the wrong to a wife which may be redressed by her action for loss of consortium or support is restricted to those which have a direct tendency to deprive the wife of her right in this respect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“neither wife nor children have a cause of action for an injury inflicted upon the husband and father, that right being strictly limited to the injured party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“litigation almost without end, all based upon a single tort and only one individual physically involved in the accident itself.”
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.