Richmond Co v. Powers’s Empirical Analysis
149 U.S. 43 · 1893
Citation profile
204 federal appellate · 8 district · 80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 341 later decisions (24 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2009 · most notably Gunning v. Cooley (1930), Patton v. Texas & Pacific Railway Co. (1901)
204 federal appellate · 8 district · 80 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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 Railroad Company v. Stout · Washington Co v. McDade · Delaware Co v. Converse · Schofield v. Chicago M St P Ry 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 341 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well settled that where there is uncertainty as to the existence of negligence or contributory negligence, the question is not one of law, but of fact, and to be settled by a jury; and this, whether the uncertainty arises from a conflict in the testimony, or because the facts being undisputed, fairminded men will honestly draw different conclusions from them.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.