Neuberg v. Bobowicz’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently August 1989 · most notably 20 Ill. 2d 406 - Dini v. Naiditch (1960), Millington v. Southeastern Elevator Co. (1968)
8 federal appellate · 60 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Hitaffer v. Argonne Co. · Kaczorowski v. Kalkosinski · Montgomery v. Stephan · Hoekstra v. Helgeland · Jeune v. Del E. Webb Const. Co.
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“between the sexes in this way would suit them just as well, 18 such a solution would be unacceptable to most adherents of that case. 10 (3) With the common law authorities so conflicting 19 and the opposing arguments so nearly in balance, we turn to an inquiry whether the historic common law position or the Hitaffer result comports better with other relevant elements of maritime law. 11 Defendant contends that the former answer can be rather quickly reached on the basis that the maritime law does not recognize even a husband's right to sue for loss of consortium, so that the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“«* * * Thus, the fact of marriage to the injured spouse is itself apparently enough to support a finding for recovery, because ‘in such cases jurors, endowed with at least a modicum of common sense, may be supposed to have some knowledge of ordinary affairs of life.’ Kelley v. Mayberry Township, [1893] supra, 154 Pa. at page 448 [440], 26 A. [595], at page 597. * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Samuel v. Sanner““ * * * That services, in the ordinary sense, were not rendered at all, would be immaterial and irrelevant, except as the fact might, under some circumstances, tend to show a want of conjugal regard and affection, and thereby mitigate the damages. * * * ” (Cases cited)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Samuel v. Sanner
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.