Stewart v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
168 U.S. 445 · 1897
Citation profile
102 federal appellate · 67 district · 91 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 387 later decisions (24 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2018 · most notably Missouri Kansas Texas Pailway Company v. Sallie C Wulf (1913), Mecom v. Fitzsimmons Drilling Co. (1931)
102 federal appellate · 67 district · 91 state decisions — followed in 27 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 District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Huntington v. Attrill · Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Cox · Dennick v. Railroad Co. · State ex rel. Markley v. Baldwin
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 387 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An action to recover damages for a tort is not local but transitory, and can as a general rule be maintained wherever the wrongdoer can be found.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““But neither the state in the one case nor the personal representative in the other has any pecuniary interest in the recovery. Each is simply a nominal plaintiff.””
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Every such action shall be brought by and in the name of the personal representative of such deceased person.” Act Feb. 17, 1885, c. 126, 23 Stat. L. 307.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.