Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Railway Co. v. Hackett’s Empirical Analysis
228 U.S. 559 · 1913
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 153 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2018 · most notably Dobbert v. Florida (1977), Chicot County Drainage District v. Baxter State Bank (1940)
32 federal appellate · 79 state decisions — followed in 23 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 Siebold · Norton v. Shelby County · Employers' Liability Cases · Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. Washington ex rel. Atkinson · Louisville Nashville Railroad Company v. Spencer Melton
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 153 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“inoperative as if it had never been passed”
5 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.