Keyes v. Construction Service, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 5 district · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently August 2007 · most notably Payton v. Abbott Labs (1982), Diaz v. Eli Lilly & Co. (1973)
10 federal appellate · 5 district · 54 state decisions — followed in 21 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 Smith v. Brennan · Dietrich v. Inhabitants of Northampton · RAINEY v. Horn · Poliquin v. MacDonald · Steggall Ex Rel. Stegall v. Morris
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * Natural justice demands recognition of a legal right of a child to begin life unimpaired by physical or mental defects resulting from the injury caused by the negligence of another. * * *” 210 Tenn. at 391 , 358 S.W.2d at 474 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““We think it advisable that in respect to the subject of prenatal injury the law of this Commonwealth should be in general in harmony with that of the large and growing proportion of the other States. . . . There is no need to reverse the Dietrich decision which doubtless was right when rendered but we recognize that in view of modern precedent its application should be limited to cases where the facts are essentially the same.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. White v. Yup““If the child was stillborn the plaintiff would have no right of action.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. MacE v. Jung
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.