Hardy v. Maxheimer’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 2008
10 federal appellate · 8 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.
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whenever the death of a person or injuries resulting in death shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or fault of another, and the act, neglect, or fault is such as would, if death had not ensued, have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages, the person who or the corporation which would have been liable, if death had not ensued, shall be liable to an action for damages, notwithstanding the death of the person injured, and although the death was caused under circumstances that constitute a felony.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`clearly provides not that death creates a cause of action, but that death does not extinguish an otherwise valid cause of action.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We are not willing to disregard the precedent of our own Court and the precise wording of § 2921 providing that all actions are survival actions in order to provide a more uniform statute of limitations. That is the Legislature's work.”
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.