The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company, a Corporation v. Jessie W. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
235 F.2d 390 · 1956
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2012 · most notably National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button (1963), Leis v. Flynt (1979)
31 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 45 U.S.C. § 51 (Federal Employers' Liability Act)
Relies on Ex Parte Barber · Hamilton-Brown Shoe Company v. Wolf Brothers & Company · In re Summers · Reeves v. Beardall · Breeding Motor Freight Lines, Inc. v. Reconstruction Finance Corp.
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . The term discretion when used as a guide to judicial action means sound discretion exercised with due regard for that which is right and equitable under the circumstances. It means discretion directed by reason and conscience to a just result, and it frequently involves painstaking consideration of many factors, giving to each the weight to which it is appropriately entitled. . . .” (p. 393.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.