Brown v. Shwarts’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 2016
17 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Court of Appeals, 10th District (Waco))
Relationships
Relies on Russell v. Ingersoll-Rand Co. · Weiner v. Wasson · Kimball v. Brothers · Edinburg Hospital Authority v. Treviño · St. John v. Pope
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Limitations on a wrongful death action based on negligent health care.is not tolled or extended because the decedent was a minor.This means that an action for the wrongful death of a- child who lives more than two years after a prenatal injury will as a: rule be barred by limitations, but the same result ensues when the decedent is an adult.... While there are circumstances when this result will seem harsh, it is well within the Legislature’s prerogative to prescribe the limitations period for a wrongful death claim which, it must be remembered, did not exist at common law and is a creature of statute.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sheri Durham and Denise Jenkins, as Administrator of the Estate of Jessica Haley Durham v. Children's Medical Center of Dallas, Amy Holland, CPNP, David W. Kines, FNP, Lawson Copley, M.D., J. Patrick Hieber, M.D. and Timothy J. Rupp, M.D. · University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center v. Loutzenhiser
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.