Penfield v. Chesapeake, Ohio & South Western Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
134 U.S. 351 · 1890
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 6 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1995 · most notably Martinez Ex Rel. Morales v. Bynum (1983), Bauserman v. Blunt (1893)
14 federal appellate · 6 district · 13 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 Mitchell v. United States · Dupuy v. . Wurtz · Frost & Dickinson v. Brisbin · Shaw v. Shaw
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The expressions ‘and reside out of the state,’ and ‘the time of his absence’ have the same meaning; they are correlative expressions. So that, while the defendant in this case resided out of, he was absent from the state.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“depart from and reside out of this State, the time of his absence”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Barney v. Oelrichs
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.