Carpenter v. Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 1984
2 federal appellate · 10 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 Miller v. Billingsly · Story v. O'Dea · Dunlap v. McNeil
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘This is to certify that Emanuel Carpenter, Sec. 25, Coal Bluff, is ■insured by the American Casualty Insurance and Security Company of Baltimore, Md., against accident resulting in bodily injury or death. By the terms of the policy the above named person, so long as he remains an employe of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad Company, will receive through the paymaster of that railroad company in case of accident, however and whenever happening between the date hereof and the first day of May, 1893, the following benefits. . . . This certifi cate is issued in accordance with the policy of insurance issued by the American Casualty Insurance and Security Company to the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad Company for the benefit of its employes.’ ” (p. 89.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.