The Saginaw’s Empirical Analysis
139 F. 906 · 1905
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2015
1 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Slater v. Mexican National Railroad · Stewart v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad · Northern Pacific Railroad v. Babcock · Steamboat Company v. Chase · Herrick v. Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whenever death shall be occasioned by unlawful violence of negligence, and no suit be brought by the party injured to recover damages during his or her life, the widow or widower of any such deceased person, or if there be no widow or widower, the personal, representatives may maintain an action for and recover damages for the death and loss thus occasioned.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Hamilton
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.