Foster v. Jeffers’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2018
10 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 School District No. 1 v. Keyes · Linda Sue Edwards v. Travelers Insurance of Hartford, Connecticut, P. v. Jackson, III v. Travelers Insurance of Hartford, Connecticut, P. v. Jackson, III v. Travelers Insurance of Hartford, Connecticut · Tidwell v. Collins · United States v. Sellers · Lilly Mae Onie Lee Whitelaw Hilliard v. John L. Williams and Donn Clark, Appeal of John L. Williams. Appeal of Donn Clark
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the decedent's surviving spouse, if there is one, has 'the prior and superior right above all others' to file the wrongful death action and control the litigation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) The right of action that a person who dies from injuries received from another, or whose death is caused by the wrongful act, omission, or killing by another, would have had against the wrongdoer, in case death had not ensued, shall not abate or be extinguished by the person's death but shall pass to the person's surviving spouse and, in case there is no surviving spouse, to the person's children or next of kin[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[I]t is the law in Tennessee that the proceeds from a wrongful death action become personal property of the deceased and the court will look to the statutes on distribution of personalty as a guide [to distributing those proceeds].” (citing Anderson v. Anderson, 211 Tenn. 566 , 366 S.W.2d 755 (1963))). 4 . See also Ensley v. Ensley, 105 Tenn. 107, 136 , 58 S.W. 288, 294 (1900) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kline v. Eyrich
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.