Dickson v. Waldron’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Wedmore v. State (1957), State v. Herring (1916)
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 72 state decisions — followed in 21 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 Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. v. Bayfield · Craker v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. · Mali v. . Lord · Pennsylvania Co. v. Weddle · Chicago & Eastern Railroad v. Flexman
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But common carriers, innkeepers, merchants, managers of theaters, and others who invite the liuhlic to become their patrons and guests, and thus submit personal safety and comfort to their keeping, owe a more special duty to those who may accept such invitation. Such patrons and guests have a right to ask that they shall be protected from injury while present on such invitation, and particularly that they shall not suffer wrong from the agents and servants of those who have invited them.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clancy v. Barker“It is well settled that one who has purchased his ticket, and is passing at the proper time from the depot to the train, is a passenger, and entitled to the rights of a passenger.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.