Larson v. Chase’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 103 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 117 later decisions — most recently October 2014 · most notably Pettigrew v. Pettigrew (1904), State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Village of Isle (1963)
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 103 state decisions — followed in 34 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 Pierce v. Proprietors of Swan Point Cemetery · Meagher v. Driscoll
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 117 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Wherever the act complained of constitutes a violation of some legal right of the plaintiff, which always, in contemplation of law, causes injury, he is entitled to recover all damages which are the proximate and natural consequence of the wrongful act. 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 passage““For the law to furnish redress, there must be an act which, under the circumstances, is wrongful; and it must take effect upon the person, the property, or some other legal interest of the party complaining. Neither one without the other is sufficient. This is but another way of saying that no action for damages, will lie for an act which, though wrongful, infringed no legal right of the plaintiff, although it may have caused him mental suffering.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““This has been accomplished by a process of gradual development, and all courts now concur in holding that the right to the possession of a dead body for the purposes of decent burial belongs to those most intimately and closely connected with the deceased by domestic ties, and that this is a right which the law will recognize and protect.” (p. 309.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Alderman v. Ford
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.