State of Missouri St Louis Ry Co v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
6 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently March 2012 · most notably State v. Coleman (1965), Forsyth v. Central Foundry Co. (1940)
6 district · 36 state decisions — followed in 17 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.
Relationships
Relies on Mondou v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad · Central Vermont Railway Company v. Mary Theresa White L · Red Cross Line v. Atlantic Fruit Co. · Minneapolis St Louis Railroad Company v. George Bombolis · Claflin v. Houseman
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The origin of the right does not affect the manner of administering the remedy. The grant of concurrent jurisdiction implies that, in the first instance, the plaintiff shall have the choice of the court.”
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.