Price v. Pennsylvania Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
113 U.S. 218 · 1885
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1961 · most notably Railway Mail Ass'n v. Corsi (1945), Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Rice (1918)
12 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 Daniel Dobbins v. Erie County · Nolton v. . Western Railroad Corporation
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The person thus to be carried with the mail matter, without extra charge, fa no more a passenger because he is in charge of the mail, nor because no other compensation is made for his transportation, than if he had no such charge, nor does the fact that he is in the employment of the United States, and that defendant is bound by contract with the government to carry him, affect the question. It would be just the same if the company had contracted with any other person who had charge of freight on the train to carry him without additional compensation. The statutes of the United States which authorize this employment and direct this service do not, therefore, make a person so engaged a passenger, or deprive him of that character, in construing the Pennsylvania statute.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Act of March 3, 1865, § 8, 13 Stat. at L. 506, chap. 89, provides that 'For the purpose of assorting and distributing letters and other matter in railway postoffices, the Postmaster General may, from time to time, appoint clerks, who shall be paid out of the appropriation for mail transportation.' 15”
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.