Landreth v. Reed’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably 114 Ill. 2d 107 - Ballweg v. City of Springfield (1986), Portee v. Jaffee (1980)
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 70 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Dillon v. Legg · 19 Cal. 3d 59 - Krouse v. Graham · Hill v. Kimball · Archibald v. Braverman · 231 Pa. Super. 199 - Simmons v. Mullen
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. Whether the plaintiff was located near the scene of the accident. 2. Whether the shock resulted from a direct emotional impact upon the plaintiff from a contemporaneous perception of the accident as distinguished from learning of the accident from others after its occurrence. 3. Whether the plaintiff and the victim were closely related.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage“In the modern view, actual observance of the accident is not required if there is otherwise an experiential perception of it, as distinguished from a learning of it from others after its occurrence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“... The Landreths contend that, as Kecia was only fourteen months of age at her death and there could be no evidence of any special skills or earning capacity on her part, the economic realities of today compel the conclusion that the cost of rearing the child would exceed any expected earnings or services, resulting in a net pecuniary loss to her parents. But such an argument overlooks the right of the parents to recover for reasonably expected contributions from their daughter after she reached the age of eighteen. The evidence showed that Kecia, although of tender age, was bright, active, and loving. The jury could infer from this and other evidence that in all reasonable probability the child would be of considerable financial value to her parents in their advanced years or in the event of their disability or economic hardship.”
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.