Evans v. Wabash Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently September 1968
4 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 Beave v. St. Louis Transit Co. · Roscoe v. Metropolitan Street Railway Co. · Turner v. Haar · Shuler v. Omaha, Kansas City & Eastern Railway 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The facts developed concerning the storm that was raging at or about the time of this accident are practically undisputed, and the evidence clearly shows that the snow and wind storm which was raging at the time of the collision was of a most extraordinary and unprecedented character in that locality. There are no contradictions upon this subject among the witnesses. Every witness who testified gave it that character. It was such a storm that could not reasonably have been anticipated by the agents, servants and employees of the appellant. ””
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.