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← 708 A2D 249 - Lewis v. Lewis

Lewis v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis

1998

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
March 2016
most recently cited

5 district · 3 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Semler v. Psychiatric Institute of Washington · Leftwich v. Leftwich · Trezevant v. Trezevant · Hemily v. Hemily · Young v. Sherwin-Williams Co., 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “`the pecuniary benefits that [they] might reasonably be expected to have derived from the deceased had he lived.’”
    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.