Reese v. Philadelphia & Reading Railway Co.’s Empirical Analysis
239 U.S. 463 · 1915
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1996 · most notably Ferguson v. Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc. (1957), Seaboard Air Line R. Co. v. Gentry (1950)
19 federal appellate · 13 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedReese v. Philadelphia & R. Ry. Co. (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf R. R. v. McDade · Randall v. Baltimore O R · Union Pac Ry Co v. O'Brien · Myers v. Pittsburgh Coal Co.
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.
““The rule is well settled that a railroad company is not to he held as guaranteeing or warranting absolute safety to its employees under all circumstances, but is bouud to exercise the eare which the exigency reasonably demands in furnishing proper roadbed, tracks and other structures. A failure to exercise such eare constitutes negligence.””
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.