Swift & Co. v. Rutkowski’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently September 1976 · most notably Postal Telegraph-Cable Co. v. Likes (1907), Illinois Central Railroad v. Foulks (1901)
4 federal appellate · 41 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedSwift & Co. v. Rutkowski
Relationships
Relies on Pullman Palace Car Co. v. Laack · Chicago & Alton Railroad v. Clausen · Swift & Co. v. Madden · Consolidated Coal Co. v. Scheiber · Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad v. Warner
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.