Smith v. McCurdy’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
May 2010
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Conley v. Hall · McLemore v. Sebree Coal & Mining Co. · Brewick v. Brewick · Hoke v. Cullinan · Turfway Park Racing Ass'n v. Griffin
Most-quoted passages
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“While it appears overly harsh and more than a bit cold in the case at hand, and for that matter any case dealing with the death of an individual who no longer has [or in the case now before the Court, never did have] the capacity to earn income, under existing Kentucky law damages for a wrongful death claim are based on the destruction to the decedent’s power to labor and earn money.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Aull v. Houston
How this case has been treated — in progress
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