McDaniel v. McDaniel’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 2013 · most notably 526 F. Supp. 589 - Mizell v. Eli Lilly & Co. (1981), Thornton v. Cessna Aircraft Co. (1989)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 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 Ormsby v. Executors · Thompson v. Watson · Happy Valley Farms Inc. v. Wilson · Nix v. English · Dennis v. Atlantic Coast Line R. R.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Since this action is brought under the wrongful death action of the State of Georgia ... the substantive rights and liabilities of the parties are to be determined in accordance with the law of Georgia, the lex loci. Procedural matters are to be determined in accordance with the law of South Carolina, the lex fori.”
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.