Putman v. Southern Pacific Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2005
3 federal appellate · 13 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 Railroad Company v. Barron · Mayhew v. Burns · Parsons v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co. · City of Chicago v. Keefe · Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railway Co. v. Vining's Administrator
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While the word ‘family’ usually imports a household, including parents, children, and servants, it is not always necessary, to sustain the family relation between parents and children, that they should have a residence together. It is the assumption of the duties that belong to the relation of parent and child that determines such family relation as existing in fact, and fixes their social status after maturity.””
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.