Stevens v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 2011
23 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 Kennedy v. Davis · Holt v. Stollenwerck · Louisville & Nashville R. R. v. Street · South & North Alabama Railroad v. Sullivan · Hatas v. Partin
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In all cases, either civil or criminal, the transcript of the record shall be filed in this court within sixty days after the transcript of the evidence has been established in the court below. The trial judge may extend the time for filing transcript of the record in this court for good cause shown for not to exceed thirty days, and this extension may be made within the thirty additional days, provided that in no event shall such extension project the time for filing the transcript beyond ninety days. Thereafter the time for filing in this court may be extended only by this court for good cause shown upon petition in writing of which adversary counsel must have ten days’ notice.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Indeed, the recovery does not go to the wife or the husband, but to the estate of the decedent as stated in South North Alabama Railroad Co. v. Sullivan [ 59 Ala. 272 , 279 (1877)]. "`To whom does the compensation go? Not to the husband, wife or child. The statute contains no provision that the recovery shall go to these. It shall be "distributed as personal property of an intestate is now distributed." That is, it goes to the estate of the decedent, with the limitation, that the fund "shall not be subject to the payment of the debts of the deceased."'"”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lowe v. Fulford“In Stevens , the Court, citing Holt and other cases, held that the estate of a decedent is not interested in the result of a wrongful death action because the damages recoverable in such suit are not assets of the estate, but, instead, are paid directly to the distributees by the personal representative. In so holding, the Stevens Court noted the apparent conflict between the language in Hardin and Sullivan and the Holt line of cases:”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lowe v. Fulford
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.