Winslow v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
188 U.S. 646 · 1903
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 3 district · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2025 · most notably United States v. Clarke (1980), City of Harrisonville Mo v. W S Dickey Clay Mfg Co (1933)
19 federal appellate · 3 district · 56 state decisions — followed in 21 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 Williams v. Morris · Purcell v. Miner · Insurance Company v. Chase · Phillips v. Thompson
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Acts of part performance which will take a case out of the statute must be referable solely to the contract.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““From the ordinary covenant to renew, a perpetuity will not be regarded as created. There must be some peculiar and plain language before it will be assumed that the parties intended to create it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in order to enable [the railroad company] to condemn such land in proper proceedings for that purpose, which cannot be taken in the present suit”
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.