Abbey v. Schaff’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently June 1950
4 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 Missouri Pacific Railway Co. v. Manson · Missouri Pacific Railway Co. v. Morrow
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Neither railroad companies nor cattle-guard manufacturers who succeed in having their product installed on railroads are permitted to establish standards.” (p. 89.)”
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.