Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Rigsby’s Empirical Analysis
241 U.S. 33 · 1916
Citation profile
575 federal appellate · 94 district · 241 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,360 later decisions (106 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2024 · most notably Cort v. Ash (1975), Shapiro v. Thompson (1969)
575 federal appellate · 94 district · 241 state decisions — followed in 38 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
reviewedTexas & P. Ry. Co. v. Rigsby (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Mondou v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad · Pedersen v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad · Johnson v. Southern Pacific Co. · St Louis Iron Mountain Southern Railway Company v. May Taylor W
Cited together with Cort v. Ash · J. I. Case Co. v. Borak · Cannon v. University of Chicago · Touche Ross & Co. v. Redington · National Railroad Passenger Corporation v. National Assn. of Railroad Passengers
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 1,360 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“one of the class for whose especial benefit the statute was enacted,”
79 later decisions 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.