Hines v. Garrett’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably 42 Wash. 2d 316 - McLeod v. Grant County School District No. 128 (1953), Spruill v. Boyle-Midway, Inc. (1962)
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 22 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 Hill v. Winsor · Pulaski Gas Light Co. v. McClintock · Connell's Ex'ors v. Chesapeake & Ohio Ry. Co. · Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad v. Hardie · Fowlkes v. Southern Railway 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“infested by worthless, irresponsible and questionable characters known as tramps and hoboes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[B]earing in mind the high degree of care due by a carrier to its passengers,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“required to leave the defendant's train in a dangerous and unprotected 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.