Armstrong v. Berk’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 2006
6 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
Applies 45 U.S.C. § 51 (Federal Employers' Liability Act)
Relies on Gaydos v. Domabyl · Poff v. Pennsylvania Railroad · Lewis v. Hunlock's Creek & Muhlenburg Turnpike Co. · Lehigh Iron Co. v. Rupp · Suders v. Campbell
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The persons entitled to recover damages for any injuries causing death shall be the husband, widow, children or parents of the deceased, and no other relatives . . . and the sum recovered shall go to them in the proportion they would take his or her personal estate in case of intestacy. . . .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Ever since the passage of the wrongful death statute the courts have limited the right to prove damages to persons who have suffered pecuniary loss as a result of death, the pecuniary loss being that loss of support which the persons mentioned in the wrongful death statute have sustained.””
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.