Kansas City Southern Railway Company v. Jacob Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
233 U.S. 325 · 1914
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions (18 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2008 · most notably Overnight Motor Transportation Co. v. Missel (1942), Staub v. City of Baxley (1958)
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 56 state decisions — followed in 18 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: Edward T Young · Connolly v. Union Sewer Pipe Co. · Gulf Ry Co v. Ellis · Atchison Co v. Matthews · Southern Railway Co. v. Greene
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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is also contended by the railway; company that the statute deprives it of the equal protection of the laws in that it singles out railroads and subjects them to the payment of double damages and attorneys’ fee when litigants in general are not subject to the same burdens. The contention is not tenable.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It must be remembered that the purpose of this legislation is not primarily to enforce the collection of debts, but to compel the performance of duties which ’the carrier assumes when it enters upon the discharge of its public functions.””
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.