Baldwin v. Brim’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently January 2000
5 federal appellate · 4 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 Blytheville, Leachville & Arkansas Southern Railway Co. v. Gessell · Kelly v. DeQueen & Eastern Railroad · Bush v. Brewer · Cato v. St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co. · St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. v. McClinton
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . first, that the injuries occurred by reason of the operation of a train; second, that the circumstances surrounding the injuries were such as to reasonably lead to the conclusion that the injuries would not have occurred had a proper lookout been kept; and, third, had such lookout been kept, the peril of the injured party could have, by the exercise of ordinary care, been discovered in time to have avoided the injury.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“All persons operating trains upon any railroad in this state have the duty to keep a constant lookout for persons upon, near, or approaching the railroad track. A violation of this duty is negligence. This does not mean that each member of the train crew must keep a constant lookout, but it does mean that an efficient lookout must be kept by some member of the crew at all times.”
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.