Witsell v. . R. R.’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 1928
1 federal appellate · 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 Haynes v. Kaleigh Gas Co. · Pittsburg, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Thompson · Stewart v. . Carpet Co. · Marks v. Cotton Mills. · Tuller v. Talbot
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As the jury now respond to issues and do not find a general verdict, it was not error to refuse these prayers, which would not aid the jury to answer the issues and might confuse them. Bottoms v. Railroad Co., 109 N. C. 72 , 13 S. E. 738 ; Farrell v. Railroad, 102 N. C. 390 [ 9 S. E. 302 , 3 L. R. A. 647 , 11 Am. St. Rep. 760 ]; McDonald v. Carson, 94 N. C. 497 . If a prayer is in part erroneous, the court may decline it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If an appliance is such that the railroads should have it, the poverty of the company is no sufficient excuse for not having it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Greenlee v. . R. R.
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.