Wallace v. Bounds’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 2016
2 federal appellate · 15 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 180 Cal. App. 2d 898 - Tate v. Canonica · 58 Wash. 2d 846 - Orcutt v. Spokane County · Moore v. H. Gaus & Sons Manufacturing Co. · Plaza Express Company v. Galloway · Dilallo v. Lynch
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Suicide, due to a mind disordered by an accident or injury or even by an assault accompanied by mental torture, has been held not so related to the wrongful acts as to furnish a ground for the action, where the act of suicide of the insane person is voluntary and done with knowledge of its purpose and physical effect; but where, as the proximate result of the injury the person injured becomes insane and bereft of reason, and while in this condition and as a result thereof he takes his own life, his act being involuntary, the act causing the injury has been held to be the proximate cause of death.” 25 C.J.S. Death § 25, p. 1094. See also Scott v. Greenville Pharmacy, Inc., 212 S.C. 485 , 48 S.E.2d 324 , 11 A.L.R.2d 745 [1948]; Annotation, 11 A.L.R.2d 751 , 757; Tate v. Canonica, 180 Cal.App.2d 898, 913, 914 , and 915[5], 5 Cal.Rptr. 28 [1960]; Orcutt v. Spokane County, 58 Wash.2d 846 , 364 P.2d 1102 [1] [1961]; Arsnow v. Red Top Cab Co., 159 Wash. 137 , 292 P. 436 [3] [1930]; 2 Restatement, Torts, § 455 (comment a, b, d); Prosser, The Law of Torts, 2d ed., § 49, pp. 273, 274; 16 Am.Jur., Death, § 81.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“At his death only one claim or cause of action was in existence. It was either the same claim Doyle Wallace had and sued for in his lifetime or a new claim which came into existence upon his death. Both claims could not and did not exist. The theory of one of the claims denies the theory of the other. The proof of one negates, repudiates and disproves the other. In these circumstances the claims are inconsistent and, under the authorities, a party is not entitled to go to a jury on the two claims but is put to an election.”
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.