Pullman Co. v. Meyer’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently March 1991 · most notably Allegheny College v. National Chautauqua County Bank of Jamestown (1927), 512 So. 2d 725 - Hoffman-La Roche, Inc. v. Campbell (1987)
1 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.
Relationships
Relies on Parrish v. State · McIntyre Lumber & Export Co. v. Jackson Lumber Co. · Travis v. L. & N. R. R. · Robinson & Co. v. Greene · Alabama City G. & A. Ry. Co. v. Appleton
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Even though an agreement is, when made, unilateral, if the party-in whose favor the promise is made accepts its performance, or does ‘any act in recognition of its implied or intended, though unexpressed, consideration, this supplies the element of mutuality, and gives a right of action.’ ” (p. 401.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Braniff v. Baier
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.