Caputo v. Holt, Administratrix’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 1995
6 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 Kennedy v. Mullins · Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Pulliam · Pearson v. Board of Supervisors · Masters v. Hart · Leigton v. Maury
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he personal representative of the deceased may compromise any claim to damages [for death by wrongful act] . . . after action [is] brought, with the approval of the court wherein any such action [is] brought . . . Such approval may be applied for by the personal representative, on petition tp such a court, stating the compromise, the terms thereof, and reasons therefor, and convening the parties in interest ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The rule that the proofs must correspond with the allegation is fully recognized, but like every other rule should be reasonably applied. Its purpose is to prevent surprise. Where there is no surprise to the party invoking it, there is no good reason for enforcing the rule.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In light of that purpose, we construe the word 'may' as used in the second sentence of this statute to be mandatory”
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.