Williams v. Chicago & Alton Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently March 1950 · most notably St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad v. Conarty (1915), City of Pekin v. McMahon (1895)
1 federal appellate · 32 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Harty v. . Central R.R. Co. of New Jersey · Norton v. Eastern Railroad · O'Donnell v. the Providence and Worcester R.R. Co. · Wakefield v. Connecticut & Passumpsic Rivers Railroad · Ransom v. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Co.
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.