Erie Railroad v. Purucker’s Empirical Analysis
244 U.S. 320 · 1917
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 2 district · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1940 · most notably Boldt v. Pennsylvania Railroad (1918), Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. v. Ward (1920)
24 federal appellate · 2 district · 50 state decisions — followed in 20 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 Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. De Atley · Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. Earnest · Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Proffitt
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““failed to take into account the undisputed testimony that the engine ran into Marietta (the section hand) without signal or warning to him. Under such circumstances the injured man would not assume ithe risk attributable to the negligent operation of the train, if the jury found it to be such, unless the consequent danger was so obvious that an ordinarily prudent person in his situation would have observed and appreciated it.””
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.