Meacham v. Jamestown, Franklin & Clearfield Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 8 district · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2023 · most notably Red Cross Line v. Atlantic Fruit Co. (1924), Robert Lawrence Co. v. Devonshire Fabrics, Inc. (1959)
16 federal appellate · 8 district · 46 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Guaranty Trust & Safe Deposit Co. v. Green Cove Springs & Melrose Railroad · 2 E.H. Smith 9 - Marshall v. . Sherman · President of Delaware & Hudson Canal Co. v. Pennsylvania Coal Co. · White v. . Howard · Sweet v. . Morrison
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An agreement that all differences arising under a contract shall be submitted to arbitration relates to the law of remedies, and the law that governs remedies is the law of the forum.”
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.