Missouri Pac Co v. Aeby’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1990 · most notably Ferguson v. Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc. (1957), Toledo St Co v. Allen (1928)
2 federal appellate · 39 state decisions — followed in 23 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 Seaboard Air Line Railway v. Horton · Patton v. Texas & Pacific Railway Co. · New York Central Railroad v. Winfield · Washington Co v. McDade · Baltimore Co v. Groeger
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There was no light on the platform. The lamp and lantern were left inside, and it does not appear that either was placed to give light through the bay window or otherwise upon or about the steps or platform.” (p. 429.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““No employment is free from danger. Fault or negligence on the part of petitioner may not be inferred from the mere fact that respondent fell and was hurt.””
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.