Dahn v. McAdoo’s Empirical Analysis
256 F. 549 · 1919
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 1950
2 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 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 New York Central Railroad Company v. Sarah White · New York Central Railroad v. Winfield
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“General Order No. 18." “It is therefore ordered, that all suits against carriers while under federal control must be brought in the county or district where the plaintiff resides, or in the county or district where the cause of action arose.” General Order No. 18-A: “It is therefore ordered that all suits against carriers while under federal control must be brought in the county or district where the plaintiff resided at the time of tlio accrual of the cause of action or in the county or district where the cause of action arose.” General Order No. 18-B: “It is therefore ordered, that all sails against the Director General of Railroads as authorized by General Order No. 50-A, must be brought in the county or district where the plaintiff resided at the time of Hie accrual of the cause of action or in the county or district where the cause of action arose; or where the cause of action would but for federal control accrue against the initial carrier (as under section 20, paragraph 11, of the Act to Regulate Commerce), such action may be brought in the county or district where the property was received for transportation.” General Order No. 50: “It is therefore ordered, that actions at law, suits in equity, and proceedings in admiralty hereafter brought in any court based on contract, binding upon the Director General of Railroads, claim for death or injury to person, or for loss and damage to property, arising since December 81, 1917, and growing out of the possession, use, contr”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Loughnan v. Hines
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.