Carter v. Van Meter’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently April 2009
2 federal appellate · 5 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 Van Beeck v. Sabine Towing Co. · Meekin v. Brooklyn Heights Railroad · City of Shawnee v. Cheek · Landers v. BF Goodrich Company · Capitol Aggregates, Inc. v. Great American Insurance Co.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The cause of action that survives is for damages for injuries received by the injured party ..., which, if he lives, may be recovered by him, but, if he dies from the injuries, then his heirs and legal representatives have the right to recover the same damages that the injured party, had he lived, could have recovered. That is, his right to recover damages because of the injuries which he has suffered up to the time of his death, survives to his heirs and legal representatives. The cause of action which Terry Wayne Huntington had by virtue of his parents’ death and which is involved herein, was a new cause of action created by the Death Statute, and was for damages suffered by himself — loss of nurture, support and education — by virtue of his parents’ death. This new cause of action was for damages not recoverable at common law, but recoverable only by virtue of the Death Statute and for the sole and exclusive benefit of himself.”
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.