69 So. 2d 776 - Lithgow v. Hamilton’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Sanchez v. Schindler (1983), Schmitt v. Jenkins Truck Lines, Inc. (1969)
2 federal appellate · 22 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 Waller v. First Savings & Trust Co. · Florida Central & Peninsular Railroad v. Foxworth · 61 So. 2d 420 - Ripley v. Ewell · 58 So. 2d 539 - Davis v. Dunn · Baker v. Salvation Army, Inc.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the companionship and fellowship of husband and wife and the right of each to the company, cooperation and aid of the other in every conjugal relation. Consortium means much more than mere sexual relation and consists, also, of that affection, solace, comfort, companionship, conjugal life, fellowship, society and assistance so necessary to a successful marriage.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“any special service which the wife was accustomed to perform for the husband in the household, and in his business without compensation, which will have to be replaced by hired services.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“sustained by reason of the death of the party killed”
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.