Northern Pac Co v. Herbert’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 4 district · 158 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 209 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2019 · most notably Bank of Commerce v. State of Tennessee City of Memphis Same (1896), Koenigsberger v. Richmond Silver Min Co Richmond Silver Min Co (1895)
15 federal appellate · 4 district · 158 state decisions — followed in 39 states
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 Hough v. Railway Co. · Chicago St Ry Co v. Ross · Ford v. Fitchburg Railroad · Pantzar v. . Tilly Foster Iron Mining Co. · Flike v. . Boston and Albany R.R. Co.
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 209 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] competent and unbiased juror was selected and sworn, and the [employer] had ... a trial by an impartial jury, which was all it could demand”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““His contract implies that in regard to these matters his employer will make adequate provision that no danger shall ensue to him.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘The two kinds of business are as distinct as the making and repairing of a carriage is from the running of it.’ ””
2 later decisions 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.