Baldwin v. Powell’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1988 · most notably Kilberg v. Northeast Airlines, Inc. (1961), Nolan v. Transocean Air Lines (1961)
16 federal appellate · 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 Loucks v. . Standard Oil Co. · Whitford v. . the Panama Railroad Company · Helme v. . Buckelew · Florida East Coast Railway Co. v. Hayes · Johnson v. . Phoenix Bridge 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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““c. Where particular representa^-tive named in statute. If the death statute of the state of wrong names a particular representative to sue, such as the representative appointed in the state of wrong or the representative at the domicil of the deceased, such representative is the only person who can sue; but such representative may sue in any state as the owner of a claim in trust for certain distributees. * * * ””
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.