Pecos Northern Texas Railway Company v. Mrs M a Rosenbloom’s Empirical Analysis
240 U.S. 439 · 1916
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1938
5 federal appellate · 14 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Seaboard Air Line Railway v. Horton · Pedersen v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad · North Carolina Railroad Company v. James a Zachary · Illinois Central Railroad Company v. Joseph Behrens · St Louis San Francisco Texas Railway Company v. Maude Seale
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Upon a clearly erroneous assumption that there was nothing on which to base such request, the Supreme Court approved its refusal. The record discloses no proper reason for thus denying plaintiff in error a right claimed under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act. If when struck deceased was employed in interstate commerce, the right of recovery depended upon that Act; and it only permits suit by a personal representative for the benefit of surviving widow or husband and children if there be such.” (p. 441.)”
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.