Winfree v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.’s Empirical Analysis
227 U.S. 296 · 1913
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 20 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 162 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2019 · most notably Landgraf v. USI Film Products (1994), Hughes Aircraft Company v. United States (1997)
29 federal appellate · 20 district · 41 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedWinfree v. Northern Pac. Ry. Co. (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Gibbons v. Ogden · Mondou v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad · Williamson v. United States · Stewart v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad · Philadelphia Baltimore Washington Railroad Company v. Theodore a Schubert
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 162 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] statute which permits recovery, in cases where recovery could not be had before, and takes from the defendant defenses which formerly were available .... should not be construed as retrospective.”
9 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.