Sprague v. Woll’s Empirical Analysis
124 F.2d 767 · 1941
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 1988
6 federal appellate ·
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
Applies 45 U.S.C. § 22
Relies on Shields v. Utah Idaho Central Railroad · Sprague v. Woll · 25 F. Supp. 825 - Texas Electric Ry. Co. v. Eastus · Chicago, S. S. & S. B. R. R. v. Fleming · Texas Electric Railway Co. v. Eastus
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not necessary, of course, that there be financial connection between the electric and the steam railroads to bring a railroad company within the statute. It is the actual physical connection which is of persuasive weight. If there were no physical connections, there could be no uninterrupted interstate carriage. Where two carriers are physically joined continuous movement of freight follows. Such freight business has no connection with passenger business, is independent thereof and arises from a separate and distinct line of carrier endeavor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“operating as part of a general steam-railroad system of transportation,”
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.