Chicago Co v. Pontius’s Empirical Analysis
157 U.S. 209 · 1895
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1963 · most notably Mondou v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (1912), Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad v. McGuire (1911)
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 52 state decisions — followed in 18 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 Missouri Pac Ry Co v. Mackey · Missouri Pacific Railway Co. v. Haley · Missouri Pacific Railway Co. v. Mackey · Union Pacific Railway Co. v. Harris
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.