Lancaster v. Browder’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 1960
23 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 Kirksey v. Southern Traction Co. · Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Gasscamp · International & Great Northern Railroad v. Edwards · Texas v. Harrington · Trochta v. Missouri, K. & T. Ry. Co. of Texas
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““So we have here the bare question of whether or not seeing the approaching train she was negligent as a matter of law in attempting to cross at the time, place, and in the manner she did.””
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.