Southern Pac Co v. Darnelltaenzer Lumber Co’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 10 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2024 · most notably Hemi Group, LLC v. City of New York (2010), Keogh v. Chicago & N W Ry Co
5 federal appellate · 10 district · 22 state decisions — followed in 15 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Pennsylvania Railroad Company v. International Coal Mining Company · Meeker v. Lehigh Valley Railroad · Mills v. Lehigh Valley Railroad · Olds v. Mapes-Reeve Construction Co. · State v. Central Vermont Railway Co.
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The cases like Pennsylvania R. Co. v. International Coal Mining Co., 230 U.S. 184 , 33 S.Ct. 893, where a party that has paid only the reasonable rate sues upon a discrimination because some other has paid less, are not like the present. There the damage depends upon remoter considerations. But here the plaintiffs have paid cash out of pocket that should not have been required of them, and there is no question as to the amount of the proximate loss. See Meeker v. Lehigh Valley R. Co., 236 U.S. 412 , 429, 35 S.Ct. 328, 59 L.Ed. 644; Mills v. Lehigh Valley R. Co., 238 U.S. 473 , 35 S.Ct. 888, 59 L.Ed. 1414.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The' general tendency of the law, in regard to. damages, at least, is not to go beyond the first step.””
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.