Atchison Ry Co v. Wells’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably Erl Anger Mills, Inc. v. Cohoes Fibre Mills, Inc. (1956), Leet v. Union Pacific Railroad (1944)
1 federal appellate · 5 district · 36 state decisions — followed in 16 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 Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Simon v. Southern Railway Co. · Wells Fargo & Co. v. Taylor · Davis v. Farmers Co-operative Equity Co. · Hecht v. Malley · Davis v. Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis 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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““so as to permit a citizen and resident of another state to prosecute in Texas a cause of action which arose elsewhere against a railroad corporation of another state, which is engaged in interstate commerce, which neither owns nor operates a railroad in Texas, and which has not consented to be sued there.””
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.