Bircher v. Foster’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 2012
6 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 Tuttle v. Short · Coliseum Motor Co. v. Hester · Massion v. Mt. Sinai Congregation
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there is no authority in this State either by statute or decision whereby a district court, unless sitting in probate, would be authorized to appoint a father as the personal representative of a deceased son for the purposes of a death action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the only person who could bring an action for wrongful death was the personal representative of the deceased, the executor or administrator of decedent's estate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“is anomalous in some respects and leaves certain unanswered questions,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.