Ramsbottom v. . Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 2016
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 McGowan v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. · Russell v. Carolina Central R. R. · Jeffress v. Town of Greenville · Brewster v. Elizabeth City. · Stewart v. . Lumber 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a cause that produces the result in continuous sequence and without which it would not have occurred, and one from which any man of ordinary prudence could have foreseen that such a result was probable under all the facts as they existed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bowers v. . R. R.
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.