Grand Trunk Ry Co of Canada v. Cummings’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently April 1973 · most notably Griffin v. Boston & Albany Railroad (1889), Accident Ins Co of North America v. Crandal
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 75 state decisions — followed in 32 states
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.
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the negligence of the company contributed to, it must necessarily have been an immediate cause of, the accident, and it is no defense that another was likewise guilty of wrong.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.