Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
244 U.S. 383 · 1917
Citation profile
61 federal appellate · 8 district · 74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 211 later decisions (18 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2020 · most notably Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Pac Co v. Acme Fast Freight (1949), Texas Ry Co v. Leatherwood (1919)
61 federal appellate · 8 district · 74 state decisions — followed in 19 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 Adams Express Co. v. Croninger · Georgia Florida Alabama Railway Company v. Blish Milling Company · Kansas City Southern Railway Co. v. Carl · Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company v. Riverside Mills · Southern Railway Co. v. Prescott
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 211 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For the purpose of fixing the liability, the several carriers must be treated, not as independent contracting parties, but as one system; and the connecting lines become in effect mere agents [of the initial carrier], whose duty it is to forward the goods under the terms of the contract made by their principal, the initial carrier.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to create in the initial carrier unity of responsibility for the transportation to destination”
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.