Southern Express Company v. John Byers’s Empirical Analysis
240 U.S. 612 · 1916
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 12 district · 110 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 247 later decisions (23 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2020 · most notably D'Oench, Duhme & Co. v. Federal Deposit Insurance (1942), Wheeldin v. Wheeler (1963)
46 federal appellate · 12 district · 110 state decisions — followed in 27 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 Adams Express Co. v. Croninger · Kansas City Southern Railway Co. v. Carl · Missouri Kansas Texas Railway Company v. Harriman Brothers · Boston & Maine Railroad v. Hooker
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 247 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the elementary principle that mere mental pain and anxiety are too vague for legal redress,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Manifestly, the shipment was interstate commerce; and, under the settled doctrine established by our former opinions, rights and liabilities in connection therewith depend upon acts of Congress, the bill of lading, and common-law principles accepted and enforced by the federal courts.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The lower Federal courts, almost without exception, have adhered to this doctrine [quoted above], and in so doing we think they were clearly right upon principle and also in accord with the great weight of authority. ’ ’”
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.