Gooch v. Oregon Short Line Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
258 U.S. 22 · 1922
Citation profile
66 federal appellate · 10 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 182 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2016 · most notably Olmstead v. United States (1928), Burnet v. Guggenheim (1933)
66 federal appellate · 10 district · 30 state decisions — followed in 10 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
reviewedGooch v. Oregon Short Line R. (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Adams Express Co. v. Croninger · St Louis Iron Mountain Southern Railway Company v. C a Starbird · Boston v. Piper · Express Company v. Caldwell
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 182 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We perceive nothing in the form of the notice required to invalidate the requirement. It would have been sufficiently complied with if addressed to the railroad company, or to the general manager, care of the railroad company. Of course too, actual knowledge on the part of employees of the company was not an excuse for omitting the notice in writing. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Ry. Co. v. Starbird, 243 U.S. [592] 594 [ 37 S.Ct. 462, 463 , 61 L.Ed. 917 ].” (Emphasis added.) Id. at 24, 42 S.Ct. at 193 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“For although courts sometimes have been slow to extend the effect of statutes modifying the common law beyond the direct operation of the words, it is obvious that a statute may indicate a change in the policy of the law, although it expresses that change only in the specific cases most likely to occur to the mind. Johnson v. U. S., 1 Cir., 163 F. 30, 32, 18 L.R.A.,N.S., 1194.”
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.