Utts v. Short’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
July 2002
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Probate Court)
Relationships
Relies on Mobil Oil Corp. v. Ellender · Sorokolit v. Rhodes · Reagan v. Vaughn · Moore v. Lillebo · C & H NATIONWIDE, INC. v. Thompson
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]ecause each wrongful death beneficiary has an individual, personal injury, we hold that the settlement of one claimant cannot be applied against the recovery of a different claimant”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Utts v. Short“only the settling claimant's damages shall be reduced by the amount of that claimant's settlement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Utts v. Short
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.