Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad v. Winters’s Empirical Analysis
242 U.S. 353 · 1917
Citation profile
64 federal appellate · 20 district · 159 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 273 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1996 · most notably Industrial Accident Commission of State of California v. Payne (1922), Erie Co v. Collins (1920)
64 federal appellate · 20 district · 159 state decisions — followed in 32 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 Minneapolis St Louis Railroad Company v. George Bombolis · Winters v. Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad · Winters v. Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad
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 273 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Its character as an instrument of commerce depended on its employment ut the time, not upon remote probabilities or upon accidental later events.””
14 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.