600 So. 2d 981 - Waters v. Hipp’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 2018
1 federal appellate · 8 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 Harris v. McRae · Hatas v. Partin · Downtown Nursing Home, Inc. v. Pool · 471 F. Supp. 999 - Simmons v. Pulmosan Safety Equipment Corp.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A wrongful death action is purely statutory; no such action existed at common law. Simmons v. Pulmosan Safety Equipment Corp., 471 F.Supp. 999 (S.D.Ala.1979). Section 6-5-410 provides that the personal representative of the deceased may bring a wrongful death action. A ‘personal representative,’ for the purposes of § 6-5^10, is an executor or an administrator. Hatas v. Partin, 278 Ala. 65 , 175 So.2d 759 (1965). One who sues under this section without having been appointed executor or administrator does not qualify under this section as a personal representative, and the suit is a nullity. Downtown Nursing Home, Inc. v. Pool, 375 So.2d 465 (Ala.1979), cert. denied, 445 U.S. 930 , 100 S.Ct. 1318 , 63 L.Ed.2d 763 (1980).””
5 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.