Greene v. Basti’s Empirical Analysis
391 F.2d 892 · 1968
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently August 1980
1 federal appellate · 2 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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Rodriguez v. New York · King v. Order of United Commercial Travelers of America · Fisher v. Dye · McSwain v. McSwain
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . As a statutory right, a Wrongful Death Action gives a potential recovery to the decedent’s dependents as against a tortfeasor causing the death. The recovery belongs directly to applicable members of the statutory class notwithstanding the fact that the action is brought for them by the decedent’s personal representative. Funk v. Buckley & Co., 158 Pa. Super. 586 , 45 A. 2d 918 (1946). Legal infirmities of those who sue for wrongful death such as contributory negligence or a release are valid defenses against them, e.g., Burns v. Goldbert, 210 F. 2d 646 (3d Cir. 1954); Schetter v. United States, 136 F. Supp. 931 (W.D. Pa. 1956).””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Culbert v. Calderon
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.