Matthews v. Hicks, Adm'r.

How courts have described this case

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

• applying precursor of current statutory definition of damages for wrongful death
• damages in wrongful death action, which may be brought for benefit of decedent’s children, may include ‘‘loss of deceased’s care, attention and society’’
• where the surviving wife had deserted the decedent and lived in adultery for two years, but returned to him over weekends about two weeks before his death

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Sanchez v. Schindler
  Texas Supreme Court· 1983-04-27· cited 318×
• Bedgood v. Madalin
  Texas Supreme Court· 1980-06-04· cited 72×
• Maroulis v. Elliott
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1966-11-28· cited 55×
• Wilson v. Whittaker
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1967-04-24· cited 54×
• Litchford v. Hancock
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1987-01-16· cited 45×
• Basham v. Terry, Administratrix
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1958-03-10· cited 42×
• City of Tucson v. Wondergem
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1970-03-09· cited 34×
• Gough v. Shaner
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1955-11-28· cited 33×
• Cavanaugh v. Jepson
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1969-05-06· cited 27×
• Stamper v. Bannister
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1961-02-14· cited 24×
• Weller v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-08-10· cited 23×
• Marshall v. Goughnour
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1980-08-28· cited 20×
• St. Clair v. Eastern Air Lines, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 1962-04-24· cited 19×
• Russell v. Hammond
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1959-01-26· cited 17×
• Pugh v. Yearout
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1972-01-17· cited 16×
• Portsmouth Transit Company v. Brickhouse
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1959-05-04· cited 15×
• Sawyer v. United States
  E.D. Virginia· 1978-11-20· cited 15×
• ESSO STANDARD OIL COMPANY v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1960-11-28· cited 13×
• Carroll v. Sneed
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1971-03-08· cited 13×
• Richmond Greyhound Lines, Inc. v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1962-12-03· cited 13×

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Butler v. Parrocha
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1947-06-09· cited 34×
• Nehi Bottling Company v. Lambert
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1955-03-07· cited 33×
• Yellow Cab Co. of Virginia, Inc. v. Gulley
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1938-01-13· cited 30×
• Smith v. Clark
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1948-01-12· cited 29×
• Simmons & Winch v. McConnell
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1890-02-13· cited 22×
• Poole v. Kelley
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1934-03-22· cited 22×
• Sink v. Masterson
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1950-11-27· cited 20×
• Ratcliffe v. McDonald's Administrator
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1918-11-14· cited 18×
• Withrow v. Edwards
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1943-04-26· cited 16×
• City of Danville v. Howard
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1931-03-19· cited 12×
• Crawford v. Hite
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1940-09-05· cited 11×
• Leo Butler Co. v. Wilbun
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1951-05-07· cited 10×
• Porter v. Virginia Electric & Power Co.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1944-09-06· cited 10×
• Wolfe v. Lockhart
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1953-11-30· cited 9×
• Via v. Badanes
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1949-03-07· cited 8×
• Harris v. Royer
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1935-11-14· cited 7×
• Chick Transit Corp. v. Edenton
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1938-04-28· cited 7×
• Stillman v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1943-10-11· cited 5×
• Virginia Public Service Co. v. Carter
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1937-03-11· cited 3×
• Mitchell v. Kennedy
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1936-06-11· cited 2×