Preble v. Wabash Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 1961
9 state decisions
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 Chicago, Peoria & St. Louis Railroad v. Woolridge · Pennsylvania Co. v. Keane
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It was proper to prove that John E. Aiten was the sole support of his widow at the time of his death, and that was the effect of the statement that the widow was dependent upon her husband for support. (Pennsylvania Co. v. Keane, 143 Ill. 172 [ 32 N. E. 260 ]; Swift & Co. v. Foster, 163 Ill. 50 [ 44 N. E. 837 ]; St. Louis, Peoria & Northern Railway Co. v. Dorsey, 189 Ill. 251 [ 59 N. E. 593 ]; Brennen v. Chicago & Carterville Coal Co., 241 Ill. 610 [ 89 N. E. 756 ].) But proof of the pecuniary circumstances of the widow would have been improper. (Chicago, Peoria & St. Louis Railroad Co. v. Woolridge, 174 Ill. 330 [ 51 N. E. 701 ].)””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Clason v. Velguth
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.