Union Pac Ry Co v. Callaghan’s Empirical Analysis
161 U.S. 91 · 1896
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently December 1950 · most notably Travelers' Ins. Co. of Hartford v. Randolph (1897), Hovey v. Sanders (1915)
26 federal appellate · 7 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Columbia Co v. Hawthorne · Newport News & Mississippi Valley Co. v. Pace
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where a general exception is taken to the refusal of a series of instructions, it .will not be considered if any one of the propositions is unsound.” Union Pacific Ry. Co. v. Callaghan, 161 U. S. 91 , 95, 16 Sup. Ct. 493 , 495 ( 40 L. Ed. 628 ); Newport News & Mississippi Valley Co. v. Pace, 158 U. S. 36 , 15 Sup. Ct. 743 , 89 L. Ed. 887 ; 2 Ency. U. S. Sup. Ct. Reps. p. 101 and notes.”
3 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.