Northern Pac Co v. Everett’s Empirical Analysis
152 U.S. 107 · 1894
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1963 · most notably Schlemmer v. Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg Railway Co. (1907), McDermott v. Severe (1906)
24 federal appellate · 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 Richmond Co v. Powers · Metropolitan Nat Bank of New York v. St Louis Dispatch Co · Dunlap v. Northeastern Railroad · Sullivan v. New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not easy on a subject of this kind to lay down unbending rules, and conflicting cases can readily be found; but, without pursuing the subject further, we are satisfied that in the present case there is no conclusive evidence of the want of due care on the part of Everett in not observing the projecting timber while he was in the discharge of his duty, and while his attention was directed to the work in which he was engaged.””
1 later decision 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.