Tolbert v. Maner’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently September 2020
5 federal appellate · 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 Gilbert v. Richardson · Brazo v. Cox · Lovett v. Garvin · Tolbert v. Maner
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he surviving spouse or, if there is no surviving spouse, a child or children, either minor or sui juris, may recover for the homicide of the spouse or parent the full value of the life of the decedent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Thus, under subsection (a), wrongful death claims may be brought by only two categories of plaintiffs - the decedent's surviving spouse and, if there is no surviving spouse, the decedent's children.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Any amount recovered under subsection (a) of this Code section shall be equally divided, share and share alike, among the surviving spouse and the children per capita. . . .”
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.