personal representative
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 275 U.S. 161 - Chicago Co v. Wells-Dickey Trust Co · 1927Most cited · 168 citing opinions
While the suit thereon must be brought by the personal representative of the employee, he sues as trustee for the person or persons on whose behalf the act authorizes recovery.
How often courts cite the case defining “personal representative”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “personal representative” — 168 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.