Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Stewart’s Empirical Analysis
228 U.S. 357 · 1913
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently May 1967 · most notably Cox v. Northwest Airlines, Inc. (1967), Cole v. . R. R. (1930)
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedTexas & P. Ry. Co. v. Mayer (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railway Company v. Kellogg · Atchison Topeka Santa Fe Railway Company v. Samuel Calhoun · Insurance Company v. Tweed · Mayor of Helena v. United States ex rel. Helena Waterworks 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““I became fearful that I was on the wrong coach, as no one else entered the same, and I left it to find out as to whether it was the right ear or not. * * * I went to the door and saw that it was all in darkness, and I wanted to go and I held onto the door frame to try to reach the steps of the car with my feet, and in reaching for them I went on too far and slipped and fell to the ground.””
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.