Burt v. Meyer’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 2010
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 7 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 In re Air Crash Disaster Near Chicago, Illinois on May 25, 1979 · International Society for Krishna Consciousness, Inc. v. City of Evanston · Arnold v. Jacobs · Schulhof v. Northeast Cellulose, Inc. · 15 Mass. App. Ct. 757 - Guy v. Johnson
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the first clause of section 2 limits recovery to a class of persons. It provides for recovery of compensatory damages by 'the persons entitled to receive the damages recovered' and limits the class to those persons 'as provided in section .'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““A person who (1) by his negligence causes the death of a person, or (2) by willful, wanton or reckless act causes the death of a person under such circumstances that the deceased could have recovered damages for personal injuries if his death had not resulted . . . shall be liable in damages in the amount of: (1) the fair monetary value of the decedent to the persons entitled to receive the damages recovered, as provided in section one, including but not limited to compensation for the loss of the reasonably expected net income, services, protection, care, assistance, society, companionship, comfort, guidance, counsel, and advice of the decedent to the persons entitled to the damages recovered . . .” (emphasis supplied).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bratcher v. Galusha“If there is no surviving wife or husband, then to the use of the next of kin.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Knowlton v. Spillane
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.