Pullman Co. v. Croom’s Empirical Analysis
231 U.S. 571 · 1913
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1954 · most notably Irwin v. Wright (1922), Pullman Co. v. Knott (1914)
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 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 Warner Valley Stock Company v. Smith · United States Bernardin v. Butterworth · Richardson v. McChesney · United States v. Boutwell · Marshall v. Dye
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In view of the inconvenience, of which the present case is a striking instance, occasioned by this state of the law, it would seem desirable that Congress should provide' for the difficulty by enacting that, in the case of suits against the heads of departments abating by death or resignation, it'should be lawful for the successor in office to be brought into the case by”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Irwin v. Wright
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.