Heyman v. Gordon’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 2003
22 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 United New York & New Jersey Sandy Hook Pilots Ass'n v. Halecki · Klein v. Klein · Kaczorowski v. Kalkosinski · Long v. Landy · Koplik v. C. P. Trucking Corp.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Stripping the situation of formalities, which should not be allowed to disguise it, the real and only party in interest is the son. He seeks to collect money from his father on the ground that the latter negligently caused the death of his mother. We see no essential difference between this state of fact and that where an unemancipated child sues his parent for his own injuries, negligently caused.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“by a wrongful act, neglect or default, such as would, if death had not ensued, have entitled the person injured to maintain an action for damages resulting from the injury”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the substance of the action is a claim for damages for the benefit of an unemancipated child against his parent”
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.