Betts v. Southern Ry. Co.’s Empirical Analysis
71 F.2d 787 · 1934
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 14 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently October 2013 · most notably Semler v. Psychiatric Institute of Washington (1978), 76 F. Supp. 940 - Smith v. Pennsylvania Central Airlines Corporation (1948)
6 federal appellate · 14 district · 3 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 Bradford Elec. Light Co. v. Clapper · Ormsby v. Executors · Brown v. Southern Railway Co. · McGinnis v. Missouri Car & Foundry Co. · Brown v. Southern Railway Co.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““that all matters pertaining to the substantive right of recovery under a wrongful death statute, including the right to recover, the nature of the right, and the party in whom it is vested, are governed by the law of the state where the injury resulting in death occurred.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““If compensation is claimed and awarded, the North Dakota workmen’s compensation fund is subrogated to the rights of the injured employee or his dependents to recover against that person. (The third party wrongdoer.) The statute is not ambiguous. It does not say that the workmen’s compensation fund shall have the right to recover, it does not extend the right to ■both parties, but it says the workmen’s compensation fund shall be subrogated to the rights of the injured employee, and it follows that all the rights which the injured employee had to bring such action are in law conveyed to the workmen’s compensation fund. ‘Subrogation in its broadest sense is the substitution of one person in place of another with reference to a lawful clarim of right’ 25 R.C.L. 1311.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Breitwieser v. State
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.