Hill v. Nicodemus’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Miller v. Bennett · Hyman v. Glover · Zysk v. Zysk · Amusement Slides Corp. v. Lehmann · State v. Willis
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“plaintiff’s participation in an immoral or unlawful act precluded recovery for injuries incurred as a result of that act, and consequently a decedent’s participation in such an act bars recovery for wrongful death by [his] personal representative.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“party who consents to and participates in an immoral or illegal act cannot recover damages from other participants for the consequence of that act .... [T]he very illegal act to which the plaintiff consented and in which she participated produced the injuries and damages of which she complains.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Greene v. Guarino“the act of taking one’s own life is ‘subversive of sound morality’.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wackwitz v. Roy
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.