Fabricius v. Horgen

How courts have described this case

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

• applying law of Iowa, rather than Minnesota where the accident occurred, since the plaintiffs were Iowa residents acting on behalf of Iowa decedents
• “To the extent that [the survival statute] saves an action from abatement it is in derogation of the common law.”
• “To the extent that [the survival statute] saves an action from abatement it is in derogation of the common law.”
• state of administration applied own law to determine proper party plaintiff

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Marmon v. Mustang Aviation, Inc.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1968-05-15· cited 180×
• O'Connor v. O'Connor
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1986-12-23· cited 178×
• Mitchell v. Craft
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 177×
• Wilcox v. Wilcox
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 1965-03-05· cited 159×
• Balts v. Balts
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1966-04-01· cited 105×
• First National Bank in Fort Collins v. Rostek
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1973-09-24· cited 98×
• Woodward v. Stewart
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1968-07-09· cited 91×
• Dym v. Gordon
  New York Court of Appeals· 1965-07-09· cited 90×
• Schwartz v. Schwartz
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1968-11-20· cited 83×
• In Re Air Crash Disaster at Boston, Massachusetts on July 31, 1973
  D. Massachusetts· 1975-08-21· cited 60×
• Bickel v. MacKie
  N.D. Iowa· 1978-04-04· cited 60×
• Berghammer v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1971-03-11· cited 58×
• Fox v. Morrison Motor Freight, Inc.
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1971-03-03· cited 49×
• Schmitt v. Jenkins Truck Lines, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1967-04-04· cited 44×
• Fuerste v. Bemis
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1968-03-05· cited 43×
• Foster v. Day & Zimmermann, Inc.
  Eighth Circuit· 1974-09-13· cited 41×
• Cameron v. Hardisty
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1987-06-17· cited 40×
• Issendorf v. Olson
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1972-02-08· cited 38×
• Armstrong v. Armstrong
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1968-06-07· cited 33×
• Maghee v. State
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2009-10-09· cited 33×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Griffith v. United Air Lines, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1964-10-14· cited 758×
• Babcock v. Jackson
  New York Court of Appeals· 1963-05-09· cited 756×
• Cardamon v. Iowa Lutheran Hospital
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1964-05-05· cited 32×
• Dorr Cattle Co. v. Des Moines National Bank
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1905-03-14· cited 28×