Jackson Lumber Co. v. Cunningham’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently January 1986 · most notably Tennessee Coal, Iron & R. R. v. Smith (1911), Citizen's L. H. & P. Co. v. Lee (1913)
1 federal appellate · 32 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 Geo. Pacific Railway Co. v. Davis · Alabama Great Southern Railroad v. Davis · Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Hawkins · Highland Avenue & Belt Railroad v. Miller · Mobile, Jackson & Kansas City Railroad v. Riley
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““How frequently the road ought in the use of due care to have been inspected was a question of fact, dependent, it may be, on the character of the material of which the road was composed and the use to which the same was subjected. The court could not properly have charged as matter of law that defendant’s duty in that regard had been discharged by an inspection had on the Saturday next before the Monday of the accident as was assumed in refused charge 5.””
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.