Atchison, T. & S. F. R. Co. v. Andrews’s Empirical Analysis
211 F.2d 264 · 1954
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1975 · most notably United Steelworkers of America v. Enterprise Wheel and Car Corp (1960), Enterprise Wheel & Car Corp. v. United Steelworkers (1959)
24 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 Loew's, Inc. v. Cinema Amusements, Inc. · Boatright v. Steinite Radio Corp. · Interstate Motor Lines, Inc. v. Great Western Ry. Co. · Foster v. Atlas Life Ins. 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * [I]t is generally held that a hiring indefinite as to time is terminable at the will of either party and therefore creates no executory obligations. * * * [Footnote omitted.] [Id. at 119, Third Edition (Jaeger).]”
2 later decisions 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.