Herndon v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.’s Empirical Analysis
218 U.S. 135 · 1910
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 20 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 150 later decisions (38 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1997 · most notably Larson v. Domestic & Foreign Commerce Corp. (1949), William Truax v. Mike Raich (1915)
22 federal appellate · 20 district · 30 state decisions — followed in 13 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 Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Smyth v. Ames · Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward · Barbier v. Connolly
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 150 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is to be remembered that this statute is not of that class passed in the exercise of the police power of the state for the promotion of the public safety and requiring the stoppage of trains by one railroad before crossing the tracks of another railroad. This statute, as its second section shows, was passed for the purpose of providing greater facilities of travel and not for the protection of life and limb.””
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.