Graf v. Taggert’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably Portee v. Jaffee (1980), Summerfield v. Superior Court, Maricopa Cty. (1985)
3 federal appellate · 81 state decisions — followed in 21 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 Liberty National Life Insurance Company v. Weldon · Fuentes v. Tucker · Smith v. Brennan · Verkennes v. Corniea · Fussner v. Andert
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by the wrongful act, neglect, or default of another, and the act, neglect, or default is such as would, if death had not ensued, have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof, the person who, or the corporation which, would have been liable if death had not ensued shall be liable to an action for damages * *”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]here can be no evidence from which to infer `pecuniary injury resulting from' the wrongful prenatal death of a viable child en ventre sa mere; it is all sheer speculation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is virtually impossible to predict whether the unborn child, but for its death, would have been capable of giving pecuniary benefit to its survivors.”
3 later decisions 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.