Haney v. Stamper’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently February 2018
5 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 Larson v. Chase · North East Coal Co. v. Pickelsimer · Streipe v. Liberty Mutual Life Insurance Co. · Seaton v. Commonwealth
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The right of the surviving spouse to prescribe the time and manner of burial necessarily excludes the rights of others even though they be the next of kin. The two rights cannot occupy the same space at the same time; and, unless the right of the surviving spouse is to be deemed wholly illusory, it must be exclusive.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harrod v. Caney“It is settled that, in the absence of the expressed wishes of the deceased , the surviving spouse, where the parties have been living in the normal relations of marriage, has the paramount right not only to the custody of the dead body, but also to determine the time, manner, and place of burial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harrod v. Caney
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.