Herro v. Steidl’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 2014
19 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 Brown v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. · Eleason v. Western Casualty & Surety Co. · Woodward v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. · Quinn v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. · Schmidt v. Menasha Woodenware Co.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“By that clause, when the widow [of the deceased] died, a cause of action for the wrongful death [of the deceased] vested in the deceased's lineal descendants. It was not her cause of action, but a new one given the lineal descendants by the statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lornson v. Siddiqui“If any of the foregoing relatives shall die at any time after such cause of action shall have accrued, the relative or relatives next in order named above shall be entitled to recover for the wrongful death of the deceased.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lornson v. Siddiqui“Sec. 331.03, Stats., creates for the benefit of persons named in sec. 331.04(1)(a) a cause of action for the wrongful death of a person.”
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.