McCabe v. Atchison Topeka & Sante Fe Railway Company’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 12 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2016 · most notably Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. (1970), 64 Cal. 2d 529 - Mulkey v. Reitman (1966)
2 federal appellate · 12 district · 34 state decisions — followed in 19 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Plessy v. Ferguson · Coyle v. Smith · Escanaba Lake Michigan Transp Co v. City of Chicago · Willamette Iron Bridge Co. v. Hatch
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The bill is wholly destitute of any sufficient ground for injunction and unless we are to ignore settled principles governing equitable relief, the decree must be affirmed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The complainant cannot succeed because someone else may be hurt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gebhart v. Belton
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.