Southern Railway Co. v. Puckett’s Empirical Analysis
244 U.S. 571 · 1917
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 4 district · 67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 150 later decisions (26 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1957 · most notably Overstreet v. North Shore Corp. (1943), Ferguson v. Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc. (1957)
37 federal appellate · 4 district · 67 state decisions — followed in 22 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 Pedersen v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad · Illinois Central Railroad Company v. Joseph Behrens · New York Central & Hudson River Railroad v. Carr · Erie Railroad v. Welsh
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 150 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Of course, we attribute no significance to the fact that plaintiff had been engaged in' inspecting interstate cars before he was called aside by the occurrences of the collision.””
2 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.