Stackhouse v. Todisco’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2018
10 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 Sheehan v. Commercial Travelers Mutual Accident Ass'n of America · Cooney v. Montana · Weld v. Walker · Sherman v. Rent Control Board of Brookline · Gahn v. Leary
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the absence of direction from the decedent, a surviving spouse, or, failing such a spouse (as here), then the decedent’s next of kin, have a “possession” of the body so that they may dispose of it for burial according to their wishes.... The judge below recognized the right of the daughters as next of kin ... and the guardian’s only objection is that its ef-fectuation was postponed to the attainment of age (which we take to be eighteen). We think that this was a sound precaution to ensure that the decision as to reburial is not merely that of the mother as guardian; but the judge is at liberty to authorize the removal of the body earlier if he satisfies himself of the genuineness of the daughters’ desire.”
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.