Arthur v. Texas & Pacific Railway Co.’s Empirical Analysis
204 U.S. 505 · 1907
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2000 · most notably Bouziden v. Alfalfa Electric Cooperative, Inc. (2000), Hooker v. Boston & Maine Railroad (1911)
12 federal appellate · 25 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedArthur v. Texas & P. Ry. Co. (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Bank of Kentucky v. Adams Express Co. · Cau v. Texas & Pacific Railway Co. · St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. Commercial Union Insurance · Edwards v. New York & Harlem Railroad · California Insurance v. Union Compress 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This cotton,- certainly, was in the exclusive possession and contyol of the compress company. The railway company had not assumed the liability of a common carrier, or even of a warehouseman, with regard" to it, had given no bills of lading for it, had no custody or control of it, and no possession of it, actual or constructive, and had no hand in placing or keeping it there.””
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.