Louisville Co v. Chatters Southern Ry Co’s Empirical Analysis
279 U.S. 320 · 1929
Citation profile
114 federal appellate · 34 district · 73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 301 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably Neirbo Co. v. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. (1939), Mississippi Pub Corporation v. Murphree (1946)
114 federal appellate · 34 district · 73 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedLouisville & N. R. v. Chatters (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on International Harvester Company of America v. Commonwealth of Kentucky · Georgia Florida Alabama Railway Company v. Blish Milling Company · Green v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway Co. · Philadelphia & Reading Railway Co. v. McKibbin · People's Tobacco Co. v. American Tobacco 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 301 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Foreign corporation, even when present within jurisdiction and amenable to suit, may not, unless it has consented, be sued on causes of action arising elsewhere, which are unconnected with any corporate action by it within jurisdiction.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"The appointment of the agent or agents or officer upon whom service of process may be made shall be contained in a written power of attorney accompanied by a duly certified copy of the resolution of the Board of Directors of said corporation consenting and agreeing on the part of the said corporation that any lawful process against the same which is served upon the said agent or officer shall be a valid service upon said corporation and that the authority shall continue in force and be maintained as long as any liability remains outstanding against said corporation growing out of or connected with the business done by said corporation in this State." (Italics ours.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The occurrence of the accident after the ear passed beyond the control of the Louisville & Nashville and that of the intermediate carrier to the tracks of the Southern does not admit of the application of the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur, so far as concerns the Louisville & Nashville. McNamara v. Boston & Maine R. R., 202 Mass. 491 , 499, 89 N. E. 131 ; L. & N. R. R. Co. v. Mink, 168 Ky. 394 , 182 S. W. 188 ; cf. Glynn v. Central Railroad, 175 Mass. 510 , 56 N. E. 698 , 78 Am. St. Rep. 507 ; Missouri, Kansas & Texas Ry. Co. v. Merrill, 65 Kan. 436 , 70 P. 358 , 59 L. R. A. 711 , 93 Am. St. Rep. 287 .””
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.