Wright v. Beardsley’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2022 · most notably 87 Wash. 2d 424 - Hunsley v. Giard (1976), Reid v. Pierce County (1998)
5 federal appellate · 35 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 Larson v. Chase · Burney v. Children's Hospital · Koerber v. Patek
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is neither solecism nor unreason in the view that the right of custody of the corpse of a near relative for the purpose of paying the last rites of respect and regard is one of those relative rights recognized by the law as springing from the domestic relation, and that a wilful or wrongful invasion of that right is one of those'torts for which damages for injury to feelings are recoverable as an independent element.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gadbury v. Bleitz“`That mental suffering and injury to the feelings would be ordinarily the natural and proximate result of knowledge that the remains of a deceased husband had been mutilated is too plain to admit of argument.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Adams v. King County“in such a manner as to cause the relatives or persons charged with its decent sepulture to naturally suffer mental anguish.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Adams v. King County
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.