No. 03-50005’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Estate of Wilbert Lee Henson v. Wichita Cou (2011), In Re Hence (2006)
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 Lujan v. National Wildlife Federation · Brazier v. Cherry · Simon v. United States · Rhyne v. Henderson County · Fairchild Aircraft Corporation v. Whyte
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] personal injury action survives to and in favor of the heirs, legal representatives, and estate of the injured person.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Motions for new trial or to alter or amend a judgment must clearly establish either a manifest error of law or fact or must present newly discovered evidence. These motions cannot be used to raise arguments, which could, and should, have been made before the judgment issued. Moreover, they cannot be used to argue a case under a new legal theory.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. In Re Hence“Standing under the Civil Rights Statutes is guided by 42 U.S.C. § 1988 , which provides that state common law is used to fill in the gaps in administration of civil rights suits. Therefore, a party must have standing under the state wrongful death or survival statutes to bring a claim under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981 , 1983, and 1988.”
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.