Chenoweth v. McDowell’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on McGinnis v. Missouri Car & Foundry Co. · Griffin v. Chubb · Hilliard v. Wisconsin Life Insurance · Louisville, Evansville & St. Louis Consolidated Railroad v. Lohges · Stewart v. Great Northern Railway 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Without the allegation showing the existence of facts giving the right of action to the surviving spouse, the complaint would not state a cause of action in the plaintiff. It but follows that, if the allegation is an essential one, proof thereof is also essential; a fortiori, recovery must fail where the proof shows a state of facts negativing the right.””
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.