Pullman Co. v. Ray’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Tellez v. Canton Railroad Co. (1983), 87 Md. App. 364 - Yost v. Early (1991)
24 federal appellate · 44 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 Savarese v. Pyrene Manufacturing Co. · Heaman v. E. N. Rowell Co. · Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. v. Murray · Crunkilton v. Hook · Horvath v. Sheridan-Wyoming Coal Co.
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[f]orbearance for a reasonable time if requested is a sufficient consideration even though no promise of forbearance is made, a unilateral contract being as good as a bilateral.”
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.