Trujillo v. Prince’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably Folz v. State (1990), Stang v. Hertz Corporation (1970)
34 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
Applies 45 U.S.C. § 51 (Federal Employers' Liability Act)
Relies on Robbins v. Taxing District of Shelby Co Tennessee · Mulhall v. Fallon · Hogsett v. Hanna · State v. Big Sheep · State v. Kenney
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““And in the case at bar we are unable to discover in the acts of Congress which have for their object the regulation of Indians’ affairs and exercising a control of Indian reservations and the property granted by Congress to Indians anything which militates against the power of the state to confer a right upon an Indian arising from our Death by Wrongful Act Statute.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The statutes allowing damages for wrongful act or neglect causing death have for their purpose more than compensation. It is intended by them, also, to promote safety of life and limb, by making negligence that causes death costly to the wrongdoer.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[0]ur Death by Wrongful Act Statute has to some degree an objective of public punishment and was designed in part at least to act as a deterrent to the negligent conduct of others and thereby promote the public safety and welfare.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.