Kress v. Markline’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently November 2013 · most notably Illinois Central Railroad v. Williams (1961), Jackson v. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad (1947)
6 federal appellate · 44 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 Railroad Company v. Stout · District of Columbia v. Armes · Grand Trunk Railroad Company v. Richardson et al. · Pauckner v. Wakem · Darling v. Westmoreland
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the cases that allow testimony of collateral facts or issues to be introduced this testimony is allowed for two purposes: One is to show that the defect or manner of operation has continued for such a length of time that the master has knowledge or is charged with notice of the defect or negligent manner of operation. The other ground of admissibility is to show the dangerous character or nature of the place.”
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.