Smith v. Fordyce’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently June 1955 · most notably Jewell v. Kansas City Bolt & Nut Co. (1910), Marvel Schillie, Administratrix of the Estate of Marion Schillie, Deceased v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company, a Corporation (1955)
3 federal appellate · 26 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 Mather v. Rillston · Browning v. Wabash Western Railway Co. · Huhn v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co. · Waldhier v. Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad · Bassett v. City of St. Joseph
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Nor did the court assume as a matter of law that it was negligence not to have a derailing switch, but left it to the jury to say whether in the light of all the circumstances a derailing switch or other like device should not have been provided. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.