Pointer v. Mountain Railway Construction Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently November 2014 · most notably May Department Stores Co. v. Bell (1932), 233 Mo. App. 312 - Hart v. Emery-Bird-Thayer Dry Goods Co. (1938)
3 federal appellate · 43 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 Anne Sweeney v. William G Errving · Orcutt v. Century Building Co. · Price v. Metropolitan Street Railway Co. · Best Park & Amusement Co. v. Rollins · McGrath v. St. Louis Transit 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“scenic railways ... are not common carriers of passengers in any sense of the word,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.