Valeri v. Pullman Co.’s Empirical Analysis
218 F. 519 · 1914
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently June 1983
5 federal appellate · 3 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 Bigelow v. Maine Central Railroad · Sheffer v. Willoughby · Merrill v. Hodson
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“tide to food never passes as a result of an ordinary transaction of supplying food to a guest; or, as it was quaintly put in an old case, ‘he does not sell but utters his provision.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cushing v. Rodman“exercise the reasonable care of a prudent man in furnishing and serving food,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[differed] in no wise from any other person keeping a restaurant,”
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.