Contino v. Baltimore & Annapolis R.’s Empirical Analysis
178 F.2d 521 · 1949
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 1998
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. Minnesota ex rel. City of Duluth · United States v. Powell · State ex rel. City of Minneapolis v. St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Co. · Spooner v. D., L. & West. Railroad · Murphy v. State Roads Commission
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Railroad subjected itself to liability for damages from failure to give warning by joining in the construction of a crossing so dangerous that warning signs became imperative. Its liability rests upon the same duty to exercise due care as that of an employer who engages an independent contractor to do work which the employer should recognize as necessarily creating an unreasonable risk of harm unless precautions are taken. * * * The Railroad Company and the State Roads Commission did not occupy the relationship of employer and employee in this case but they did embark upon a joint enterprise so dangerous that the duty to give warning was clear and obvious from the beginning. When this duty was neglected and harm ensued, they became contributing tort feasors, each of whom was responsible for the consequences * * *.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t is the duty of every railroad company properly to construct and maintain crossings over all highways on its line in such a manner that they shall be safe and convenient to travelers so far as it may be done without interfering with the safe operation of the road....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“As a general rule the duty of keeping a public crossing in repair is the same as the duty of construction * * *. [A railroad] must adjust itself to new conditions and new facilities.”
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.