Mitchell v. Illinois Cent. R.’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently December 1968
22 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 Delaware Co v. Converse · Chicago, St. Louis & Pittsburg Railroad v. Hutchinson · French v. Taunton Branch Railroad · Brown v. . N.Y.C.R.R. · Illinois Central Railroad v. Baches
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It would seem that where a railroad company has stationed a flagman at a public crossing for the purpose of warning persons about to cross the tracks, the public have the right to rely (not absolutetly, perhaps, but reasonably so, upon the flagman to give proper notice and warning of danger.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Under such circumstances, the making of the running switch was gross negligence. Some authorities hold making running switches to be negligence per se.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It is at all times and in all places an operation attended with more or less danger.””
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.