Pierce v. Conners’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently May 2008 · most notably Salmon v. Rathjens (1907), Phillips v. Denver City Tramway Co. (1912)
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 39 state decisions — followed in 10 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.
Relationships
Relies on Moffatt v. Tenney · Hayes v. Williams · Denver, S. P. & P. R. v. Wilson · Orman v. Mannix
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Sec. 1508. Whenever any person shall die from' any injury resulting from or occasioned by the negligence, unskilfulness or criminal intent of any officer, agent, servant or employé, whilst running, conducting or managing any locomotive, car or train of cars, or of any driver of any coach or other public conveyance whilst in charge o°f the same as a driver, and when any passenger shall die from any injury resulting from or occasioned by any defect or insufficiency in any railroad or any part thereof, or in any locomotive or car, or in any stage coach, or other public conveyance, the corporation, individual or individuals in whose employ any such officer, agent, servant, employé, master, pilot, engineer or driver shall be at the time such injury is committed, or who owns any such railroad, locomotive, car, stage coach or other' public conveyance at the time any such injury is received, and resulting from or occasioned by defect or insufficiency above described, shall forfeit and pay for every person and passenger so injured the sum of not exceeding five thousand (5,000) dollars, and not less than three thousand (3,000) dollars, which may be sued for and recovered: “First — By the husband or wife of deceased, or “Second — If there be no husband or wife, or he or she fails to sue within one year after such death, then by the heir or heirs of the deceased, or “Third — If such deceased be a minor or unmarried, then by the father and mother, who may join in the suit, and each shall”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"[T]he age, health, condition in life, habits of industry or otherwise, ability to earn money, on the part of the deceased, including his or her disposition to aid or assist the plaintiff. Not only the kinship or legal relation between the deceased and the plaintiff, but the actual relations between them as manifested by acts of pecuniary assistance rendered by the deceased to the plaintiff . . . ."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the law does not exact the same degree of care and diligence from a child of tender years that it does from an adult person, of presumed better judgment and discretion.”
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.