Bonner v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 federal appellate · 6 state decisions

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

1. “Does the statute [§ 6-5-391], (as to suit by a personal representative to maintain an action and recover such damages as the jury may assess for injuries causing death of a minor child), even though it does not contain that portion of [§ 6-5-410] of the Code providing `if the testator or intestate could have maintained an action for such wrongful act, omission, or negligence, if it had not caused death,' give the right of action to such minor child? And since [§ 6-5-391] does not contain the exception `if the testator or intestate could have maintained an action for such wrongful act,' etc., does it change the rule of the common law and give the right to personal representative to sue for the tort committed by the parent on the child.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hill v. Giordano

2. “quality of the wrongful act and the degree of culpability involved.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Lowe v. General Motors Corp.