Williams v. Reading Co.’s Empirical Analysis
175 F.2d 32 · 1949
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 1971
2 federal appellate · 2 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 Scholl v. Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Co. · Straight v. B. F. Goodrich Co. · Perry v. Pittsburgh Railways Co. · Van Tine Et Ux. v. Cornelius, Admr. · Conrad v. Medina
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not the rule that circumstantial evidence need exclude everything which the ingenuity of counsel may suggest as having possibly caused or contributed to the death.”
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.