Logan v. . R. R.’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1961 · most notably North Carolina Railroad Company v. James a Zachary (1914), Julian v. Central Trust Co. (1904)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 28 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 Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway Co. v. Peyton · Balsley v. St. Louis, Alton & Terre Haute Railroad · Cowan v. . Fairbrother · Pierce v. . R. R. · Perry v. Western North Carolina Railroad
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A part of the original obligation of the lessor to the public was to furnish such trains, or other appliances, as would be necessary to provide for the safety of the passengers as well as the employés who should travel on its cars, and we see no reason why that duty should not exist, like that to look after its road bed, till the Legislature for the sovereign declares the lessor absolved from it. Resting our ruling upon the broader groun4 of the obligation to the public, which is inseparable from the grant and the exercise of the corporate privileges, except by the express consent of the Legislature, we see no force in the view of the subject which seeks to limit the scope of the lessor’s duty to such as pertain to land.””
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.