Geier v. Tjaden’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently December 1998 · most notably Schultz & Lindsay Construction Co. v. Erickson (1965), Hopkins v. McBane (1988)
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 27 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 Blackwell v. American Film Co. · Froh v. Hein · Umphrey Ex Rel. Umphrey v. Deery · Hoffer v. Burd · Dahl v. North American Creameries, 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““By the great weight of authority, where the damages to be awarded for wrongfully causing the death of a person are compensation to designated relatives for their pecuniary loss, both immediate and prospective, so far as the loss is prospective, the gross amount thereof should be reduced to its present worth.””
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.