Weitl v. Moes’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 4 district · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably 117 Wis. 2d 508 - Theama v. City of Kenosha (1984), 103 Wash. 2d 131 - Ueland v. Pengo Hydra-Pull Corp. (1984)
5 federal appellate · 4 district · 53 state decisions — followed in 25 states
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 Roe v. Wade · Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District · Carey v. Population Services International · 19 Cal. 3d 564 - Justus v. Atchison · 19 Cal. 3d 441 - Borer v. American Airlines, Inc.
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“*** [T]o recognize a right of recovery for a parent's loss of a child's consortium, and not for a child's loss of a parent's consortium, runs counter to the fact that in any disruption of the parent-child relationship, it is probably the child who suffers most.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]e hold that consortium claims must be joined with the injured person's or administrator's action whenever feasible. If brought separately, the burden will be on the consortium claimant to show joinder was not feasible.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“attained a recognized individual identity”
3 later decisions 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.