Augusta Peterson v. Chicago Rock Island Pacific Railroad Company’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 12 district · 66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 123 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2024 · most notably Burnet v. Commonwealth Improvement Co. (1932), Berkey v. Third Avenue Railway Co. (1926)
2 federal appellate · 12 district · 66 state decisions — followed in 23 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 Goldey v. Morning News · St. Clair v. Cox · Conley v. Mathieson Alkali Works · Pullman's Palace Car Co v. Missouri Pac Ry Co · People v. . American Bell Telephone 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 123 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This case presents a question of jurisdiction to be determined as one of fact. It may be divided into two propositions: First. Was the Pacific Company doing business in the state of Texas? Secondly. If so, were the alleged agents served with process in the state of Texas duly authorized as such and competent to be thus served, in such wise as to give jurisdiction of the Pacific Company?””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“This record discloses that the officers and agents of the Gulf company control its management. The fact that the Pacific company owns the controlling amount of the stock of the Gulf company and has thus the power to change the management does not give it present control of the corporate property and business.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is settled by the decisions of this court that foreign corporations can be served with process within the state only when doing business therein, and such service must be upon an agent who represents the corporation in its business.””
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.