Insurance Company v. Brame’s Empirical Analysis
95 U.S. 754 · 1877
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 23 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 163 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2019 · most notably Moragne v. States Marine Lines, Inc. (1970), The Harrisburg (1886)
45 federal appellate · 23 district · 44 state decisions — followed in 23 states
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 Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance v. New York & New Haven Railroad · Hubgh v. New Orleans & Carrollton Railroad · Hyatt v. Adams · Indianapolis, Pittsburg, & Cleveland Railroad v. Keely's Administrator
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 163 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'that by the common law no civil action lies for an injury which results in death.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Harrisburg · The Garland““Every person is responsible for the damage he occasions not merely by his act, but by his negligence, his imprudence, or his want of skill.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“actions for injuries to the person abate by death,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.