Williams v. Dowling’s Empirical Analysis
318 F.2d 642 · 1963
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 22 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably 102 Ill. 2d 505 - Bullard v. Barnes (1984), Dugas v. National Aircraft Corp. (1971)
21 federal appellate · 22 district · 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 Bond v. United R.R. of S.F. · Fuentes v. Tucker · Munro v. Pacific Coast Dredging & Reclamation Co. · Gallup v. Sparks-Mundo Engineering 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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the death of a person not being a minor, or when the death of a minor person who leaves surviving him either a husband or wife or child or children or father or mother, is caused by the wrongful act or neglect of another, his heirs or personal representatives may maintain an action for damages against the person causing the death, or in case of the death of such wrongdoer, against the personal representative of such wrongdoer, whether the wrongdoer dies before or after the death of the person injured. If such other person is responsible for any such wrongful act or neglect, the action may also be maintained against such other person, of in case of his death, his personal representatives. In every action under this section, such damages may be given as under all the circumstances of the case may be just, but shall not include damages recoverable under section 77 of this title____””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“• . It is only the pecuniary losses suffered by the heir which may be considered in carrying out the mandate of section 76' to award damages which will be just ‘under all the circumstances of the case’. . . Williams v. Dowling, 4 V.I. 465 , 318 F.2d 642 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.