Franchel v. Sims’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 2013
6 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where parents are the plaintiff beneficiaries the pecuniary injuries include loss of their child’s services, not limited to the decedent’s minority. Fair compensation may properly include probable, or even possible, benefits which might inure to the parents from their child’s entire life, taking into consideration the possibility of failure or misfortune. Among the myriad factors to be considered are the decedents’ physical status—which includes factors such as age, sex, life expectancy, state of health, habits; and the decedents’ earnings potential—i.e., character, quality, intelligence, present and future earnings and probability of means to support parents, if they are in need. Also to be viewed is the relationship between decedent and those claiming to suffer pecuniary loss and those persons’ health, age.and circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“fair and just compensation for the pecuniary injuries resulting from the decedent's death to the persons for whose benefit the action is brought.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hegger v. Green
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.