Jeter v. Texas & P. Ry. Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 1990
15 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 Davis v. Alexandria & W. Ry. Co. · Adler & Co. v. Moses · State v. Brown · Pendleton v. Missouri Pac. R. 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is too well settled to require citation that the law does not require trains to be operated at a speed permitting them to .be stopped within the range of vision of its operators.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““In the open country outside city limits, any speed is legitimate for a railroad train which is consistent with its safety. Davis et al. v. Alexandria & W. Ry. Co., 152 La. 898 , 94 So. 436 .””
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.