Texas Ry Co v. Barrett’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently May 1948 · most notably Lincoln v. Central Vermont Railway Co. (1909), In the Matter of the Application of Mary Dunn (1909)
2 district · 35 state decisions — followed in 21 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Hough v. Railway Co. · Washington Co v. McDade · Union Pac Ry Co v. Snyder · Northern Pac Co v. Herbert · Texas Ry Co v. Cody
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that the mere fact that an injury is received by a servant in consequence of an explosion will not entitle him to a recovery, but he must, besides the fact of the explosion, show that it resulted from the failure of the master to exercise ordinary care either in selecting such engine or in keeping it in reasonably safe repair.”
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.