Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. v. Bayfield’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 1 district · 99 state decisions

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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 109 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““What the family would lose by the death would be what it was accustomed to receive or had reasonable expectation of receiving in his lifetime; and to show that the family was poor has no tendency toward showing whether this •was or was likely to be, large or small. One man contributes liberally in aid of his poor relatives, another delights in contributing luxuries where comforts are already abundant; but, when the contribution is cut off in either case, the extent of the loss is not measured by the wealth or poverty of the recipient, but by the contribution itself. A dollar lost, whether by poor man or rich man, is neithey more nor less than a dollar, and a reasonable expectation of benefit to a certain amount must, when lost, be compensated to the same extent whether the loser be rich or poor.” Chicago, R. I. & P. Ry. Co. v. Hambel, 89 N. W. 643 , 644, 2 Neb. (Unof.) 607 ; Chicago, R. I. & P. Ry. Co. v. Holmes, 94 N. W. 1007 , 68 Neb. 826 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Standard Oil Co. v. Parkinson

2. “" To the pecuniary injuries resulting from such death to the wife and next of kin of such deceased person.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Van Brunt v. Cincinnati, Jackson & Mackinaw Railroad