Bunda v. Hardwick’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 22 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Under such circumstances I have not stopped a widow’s pecuniary loss at the date of her remarriage. It would be pure assumption to do so; there is no evidence before me to indicate whether she is as well off pecuniarily, or better' or worse, by reason of her remarriage. Nor do I think that any such consideration would be relevant. It may often happen that, by reason of inheritance, or insurance, or by reason of her own- industry and superi- or capacity, a widow may be much better off pecuniarily after her husband’s death than she had ever been in his lifetime. No one has ever suggested that such considerations must be taken into account in computing her pecuniary loss. Her remarriage is analogous. The fundamental question is, not her financial situation after her husband’s death, but what she might reasonably have expected to receive from him had he lived.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Groesbeck v. Napier