Peoples v. Seamon’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently August 2006 · most notably Shirley v. Shirley (1954), Allman v. Beam (1961)
43 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 Griffin Lumber Co. v. Harper · Moore-Handley Hardware Co. v. Williams · Cooper v. Agee · White v. Ward · Crescent Motor Co. v. Stone
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[w]hen a minor child is killed by the wrongful act of another, and he leaves surviving his father, the damages recoverable [under Title 7, § 119, Code of Alabama 1940, which is now § 6-5-391 ] are for the benefit of the father, where the suit is by the father personally or by an administrator.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage““We cannot adhere to the theory that a father by electing to be administrator, or causing another to be administrator, and suing as such, rather than as the parent under section 119, supra, his contributory negligence is no defense, whereas it would be a defense in a suit by the parent personally, when the damages recoverable by such administrator would belong to such parent solely to the same extent as if the suit were by him personally.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“... The earlier cases proceeded as under section 123, rather than 119, supra, when there was an administrator, even though a parent survived the death of the child. Our later cases have not followed that theory, and the result is that when a parent survives and is qualified, section 119 is the only available statute, and the recovery is solely for the benefit of that parent....”
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.