Haws v. Luethje’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably Berry v. City of Muskogee (1990), Alfone v. Sarno (1981)
6 federal appellate · 20 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 Flynn v. New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad · Mellon v. Goodyear · Mooney v. City of Chicago · Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Cassin · Hill v. Graham
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A. When the death of one is caused by the wrongful act or omission of another, the personal representative of the former may maintain an action therefor against the latter, or his personal representative if he is also deceased, if the former might have maintained an action, had he lived, against the latter, or his representative, for an injury for the same act or omission. The action must be commenced within two (2) years.... ””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“... [A]ny right of action thus granted by the statute is predicated solely upon the right of action which was personal to the deceased had he lived.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“may not accomplish what the decedent could not”
2 later decisions 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.