State of Washington Stimson Lumber Co v. Kuykendall’s Empirical Analysis
275 U.S. 207 · 1927
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 6 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2008 · most notably Bisso v. Inland Waterways Corp. (1955), Boston Metals Company the St Francis v. The S/s Winding Gulf (1955)
32 federal appellate · 6 district · 19 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 Munn v. Illinois · Liverpool & Great Western Steam Co. v. Phenix Insurance · Frost & Frost Trucking Co. v. Railroad Commission · Michigan Public Utilities Commission v. Duke · Terminal Taxicab Co. v. Kutz
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“one who undertakes for hire to transport from place to place the property of others who may choose to employ him is a common carrier.”
2 later decisions 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.