Erb v. Morasch’s Empirical Analysis
177 U.S. 584 · 1900
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 12 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 145 later decisions (26 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1984 · most notably Southern Pac Co v. State of Arizona Sullivan (1945), Morey v. Doud (1957)
24 federal appellate · 12 district · 28 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Gulf Ry Co v. Ellis · Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Cox · James Brown v. State of New Jersey · McNulta v. Lochridge
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 145 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Now, in respect to the federal questions, we remark, first, that it is the duty of a receiver, appointed by a federal court to take charge of a railroad, to operate such road according to the laws of the state in which it is situated. Act Aug. 13, 1888, e. 866, §i 2, 25 Stat. 433 , 436; United States v. Harris, ante, 305 [ 20 Sup. Ct. 609 , 44 L. Ed. 780 ].””
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.