McNulta v. Lockridge’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently July 1959 · most notably Chicago City Railway Co. v. Carroll (1903), Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad v. Schmitz (1904)
3 federal appellate · 77 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 Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co. v. Johnsen · McNulta v. Ensch · Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. v. Halsey
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ Every receiver or manager of any property, appointed by any court of the United States, may be sued in respect of any act or transaction of his in carrying on the business connected with such property, without the previous leavé of the court in which such receiver or manager was appointed; but such suit shall be subject to the general equity jurisdiction of the court in which such receiver or manager was appointed, so far as the same shall be necessary to the ends of justice.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ The plea of not guilty-; and that only, being interposed, it could not properly be claimed that the suit of the plaintiff must fail, and for the reason, that he did not introduce at the trial a witness who could testify, from his personal knowledge, that at the time when, etc., the corporation (Illinois Central Railroad Company) sued was operating the railroad, and that the conductor, engineer, fireman and others operating the train, had been employed by the company sued, and were in fact its servants, and not the servants of some receiver or other person or corporation. In the case last stated it would be impliedly conceded by the pleadings, not only that the Illinois Central Railroad Company -was a corporation, but also that at the time of the alleged injury it was operating the particular line of railroad mentioned in the declaration, and that the operatives in charge of the train being run on said road were its servants and employes.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““A receiver of a railroad company, who is exercising the franchises of such company and operating its road, is, in his oificial capacity, amenable to the same rules of liability that are applicable to the company when it is operating the road by virtue of the same franchises.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Robinson v. Kirkwood
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.