Jackson v. Rupp

How courts have described this case

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• “The early English common law recognized no ... property rights in the body of a deceased person ... this being due undoubtedly to the fact that the ecclesiastical courts exercised jurisdiction over the affairs of decedents.”
• “In spite of the fact that an exclusive right does vest in the surviving spouse, relative, or next of kin to dispose of a corpse, autopsies may be authorized by public authorities for the protection of health or the discovery of crime.”
• next of kin sued medical examiner

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).