pecuniary injuries
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 72 U.S. 90 - Railroad Company v. Barron · 1866Most cited · 152 citing opinions
wrongful death
They are confined to the pecuniary injuries resulting to the wife and next of kin, whereas if the deceased had survived, a wider range of inquiry would have been admitted. It would have embraced personal suffering as well as pecuniary loss, and there would have been no fixed limitation as to the amount.
How often courts cite the case defining “pecuniary injuries”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “pecuniary injuries” — 152 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.