Griffin v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 1960
1 federal appellate · 5 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 Jackson v. Cook · Blackburn v. Louisiana Ry. & Nav. Co. · Miller v. Baldwin
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * this train was in a curve and * * * the men who were run into were sitting at a distance of some 75 feet outside of the curve. Naturally as the engine was rounding the curve, its headlight was following the contour of the curve itself and it would seem to be a physical impossibility for the beams to have projected around and beyond the curve and shine on the two men. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ * * * as the two men were sitting on the track at a distance of only 75 feet from that point, that is how far they were from them when the trainmen first saw them. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“* * * it was physically impossible for any of its operators to see the two unfortunate victims of the accident before they were emerging from the curve, * * *.”
1 later decision 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.