Carroll v. Sneed’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently November 2000
18 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 Levy v. Louisiana Ex Rel. Charity Hospital · Middleton v. Luckenbach S. S. Co. · Matthews v. Hicks, Adm'r. · Withrow v. Edwards
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It has been argued that interpreting the wrongful death act to include illegitimate children as beneficiaries, as this Court did in Withrow v. Edwards, supra, promotes fraudulent claims and recoveries. But a person who claims to be a decedent’s child has the burden of proving that the decedent was his parent. We should not assume that finders of fact will not intelligently and justly resolve issues of paternity based upon the evidence before them and guided by the law. [Emphasis supplied.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cassady v. Martin“between members of the same class, the jury shall have absolute discretion as to who shall receive the whole or any part of the recovery.”
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.