Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. Wall’s Empirical Analysis
241 U.S. 87 · 1916
Citation profile
50 federal appellate · 3 district · 98 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 192 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1998 · most notably Georgia Florida Alabama Railway Company v. Blish Milling Company (1916), St Louis Iron Mountain Southern Railway Company v. C a Starbird (1917)
50 federal appellate · 3 district · 98 state decisions — followed in 31 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
reviewedWall v. Northern Pacific Ry. Co.
Relationships
Relies on Von Hoffman v. City of Quincy · Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company v. Riverside Mills · Edwards v. Kearzey · Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Co. v. Wallace · National Bank v. Insurance 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 192 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he laws in force at the time and place of the making of a contract and which affect its validity, performance and enforcement, enter into and form a part of it, as if they were expressly referred to or incorporated in its terms.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““As a condition precedent to the shipper’s right to recover any damages for loss or injury to said animals, he will give notice in writing of his claim thereof to the agent of the railroad company or other carrier from whom he receives said animals before said animals are removed from the place of destination above mentioned, or from the place of delivery of the same to said shipper, and before said animals are mingled with other animals.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In these circumstances it seems plain that the stipulation meant and contemplated that the notice might be given at the place of destination to an officer or station agent of the connecting carrier, and that notice to it, in view of its relation to the initial carrier, should operate as notice to the latter.”
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.