Moore v. Lillebo’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Boyles v. Kerr (1993), Birchfield v. Texarkana Memorial Hospital (1987)
15 federal appellate · 84 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Court of Appeals, 8th District (El Paso))
Relationships
Relies on Garza v. Alviar · Sea-Land Services, Inc. v. Gaudet · 27 Cal. 3d 916 - Molien v. Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Sinn v. Burd · Montinieri v. Southern New England Telephone, 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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““in awarding damages for mental anguish and loss of society and companionship in a wrongful death case, the trier of facts shall be instructed that it may consider (1) the relationship between the husband and wife; or a parent and child; (2) the living arrangements of the parties; (3) any absence of the deceased from the plaintiff for an extended period; (4) the harmony of the family relation; and (5) interest in activities.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“the emotional pain, torment, and suffering that the named plaintiff would, in reasonable probability, experience”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]e do not think that Arkansas law requires that parents of a deceased child necessarily make a public exhibition of their grief before or during trial.... We are not convinced that mental anguish necessarily manifests itself objectively to the world, nor do grief stricken parents need to offer evidence of physical symptoms such as sleeplessness, weight loss, nervousness, personality changes, and the like. Mental anguish represents a deep inner feeling of pain and hurt often borne in silence. We are satisfied from our reading of the Arkansas cases that parents, such as the Connells, are entitled to have the issue of mental anguish submitted to the jury on the basis of the emotional impact suggested by the circumstances surrounding their loss. We are convinced that assessment of the resulting grief is a task for which juries have traditionally been considered well-suited, and in which they can properly be expected to draw upon their own experience and empathy.”
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.