Lampkin v. McCormick’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 1973 · most notably 282 So. 2d 503 - Reeves v. Louisiana and Arkansas Railway Company (1973), Hopkins v. New Orleans Railway & Light Co. (1922)
1 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Grand Trunk Ry Co of Canada v. Ives · Inland & Seaboard Coasting Co. v. Tolson · 16 Md. App. 546 - King v. State · Dunkman v. Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway Co.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"We have declared that, the greater the danger to the public, the greater should be the vigilance exercised and precautions taken to avoid it. If railroad corporations passing through the streets of a city fail to exercise any vigilance and to take any precautions by reason of the pecuniary expense which this would entail, they must be made to know that they assume the risks of resulting accidents, and must take the legal consequences of their balancing the chances."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.