Acuff v. Schmit

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “the loss of services element has become identified with a recovery for all of the traditional elements of common law consortium”
• \the loss of services element has become identified with a recovery for all of the traditional elements of common law consortium\
• right to bring independent action for loss of consortium “clearly existed at common law so far as the husband was concerned, and we find no statute which deprives him of the same.”
• “Section 597.18, Code 1851, permits a married woman to make contracts and enforce them the same, as if she were unmarried.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

67 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Dini v. Naiditch
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1960-09-30· cited 268×
• Rodriguez v. Bethlehem Steel Corp.
  California Supreme Court· 1974-08-21· cited 260×
• American Export Lines, Inc. v. Alvez
  Supreme Court· 1980-05-12· cited 193×
• Millington v. Southeastern Elevator Co.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1968-07-02· cited 180×
• Gates v. Foley
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1971-04-07· cited 144×
• Weitl v. Moes
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1981-10-21· cited 106×
• Peter Igneri and Theresa Igneri v. Cie. De Transports Oceaniques
  Second Circuit· 1963-09-18· cited 105×
• Audubon-Exira Ready Mix, Inc. v. Illinois Central Gulf Railroad
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1983-06-15· cited 99×
• Moran v. Quality Aluminum Casting Co.
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 1967-04-28· cited 90×
• Thill v. Modern Erecting Co.
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1969-09-19· cited 88×
• Novak v. Kansas City Transit, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1963-03-11· cited 87×
• Clouston v. Remlinger Oldsmobile Cadillac, Inc.
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1970-04-22· cited 83×
• Hoekstra v. Helgeland
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1959-10-13· cited 82×
• Troue v. Marker
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1969-12-09· cited 78×
• Mo. Pac. Trans. Co. v. Miller
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1957-02-11· cited 68×
• Madison v. Colby
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1984-04-11· cited 67×
• Fundermann v. Mickelson
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1981-05-06· cited 65×
• Deshotel v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.
  California Supreme Court· 1958-07-31· cited 64×
• Berghammer v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1971-03-11· cited 58×
• Schreiner v. Fruit
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1974-02-25· cited 53×

Cites

24 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Hitaffer v. Argonne Co., Inc
  D.C. Circuit· 1950-10-16· cited 206×
• Brown v. Georgia-Tennessee Coaches, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1953-06-16· cited 82×
• Foot v. Card
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1889-09-13· cited 68×
• Pratt v. Daly
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1940-07-01· cited 58×
• Price v. Price
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1894-10-08· cited 53×
• Cooney v. Moomaw
  D. Nebraska· 1953-01-15· cited 48×
• Follansbee v. Benzenberg
  California Court of Appeal· 1954-01-07· cited 46×
• Clow v. Chapman
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1894-11-26· cited 42×
• Bolger v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1910-03-23· cited 39×
• Blair v. Seitner Dry Goods Co.
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1915-03-17· cited 32×
• Eva Seymour v. The Union News Company
  Seventh Circuit· 1954-11-17· cited 30×
• Hartman v. Cold Spring Granite Co.
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1956-06-22· cited 27×
• Stout v. K. C. Terminal Railway Co.
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1913-03-03· cited 26×
• Howard v. Verdigris Valley Electric Co-Operative, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Oklahoma· 1949-06-21· cited 25×
• Major v. Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Railway Co.
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1902-01-21· cited 25×
• Cravens v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1922-02-28· cited 25×
• Lane v. Steiniger
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1916-02-18· cited 23×
• Bohanan v. Maxwell
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1921-03-08· cited 23×
• Roller v. Independent Silo Co.
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1951-11-13· cited 19×
• Jacobson v. Fullerton
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1917-12-11· cited 18×