Gulf Co v. Wells’s Empirical Analysis
275 U.S. 455 · 1928
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 135 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1957 · most notably Pennsylvania Co v. Chamberlain (1933), Ferguson v. Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc. (1957)
36 federal appellate · 68 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.
Relationships
Relies on Patton v. Texas & Pacific Railway Co. · Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Behymer · Chicago St Ry Co v. Coogan · Seaboard Air Line Railway v. Padgett
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 135 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In short, we find that on the evidence and all the inferences which the jury might reasonably draw therefrom, taken most strongly against the Railway Company, the contention that the injury was caused by the negligence of the engineer is without any substantial support. In no aspect does the record do more than leave the matter in the realm of speculation and conjecture. That is not enough.””
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.