Bruce v. Collier’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently October 1992 · most notably Pickett v. Matthews (1939), Breed v. Atlanta, B. C. R. Co. (1941)
31 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 Ex Parte Adams · Ex Parte Barclay-Hays Lumber Co. · Anderson v. Humphries
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.
“"Does an action for personal injuries, begun by the decedent while in life, survive to his personal representative if death results from the same tort, giving rise to an action under the homicide act?"”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“During all this period actions for personal injury, whether or not death ensued from the injury, did not survive to his administrator. In this state of the law the Homicide Act was passed creating a new cause of action, punitive in character, for the benefit of the next of kin entitled to take as distributees of his estate.”
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.