Atchison Ry Co v. Toops’s Empirical Analysis
281 U.S. 351 · 1930
Citation profile
122 federal appellate · 114 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 291 later decisions (23 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2009 · most notably Tennant v. Peoria & Pekin Union Railway Co. (1944), Brady v. Southern Railway Co. (1943)
122 federal appellate · 114 state decisions — followed in 24 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. · Chicago St Ry Co v. Coogan · New Orleans Co v. Harris · Looney v. Metropolitan Railroad
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 291 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The negligence complained of must be the cause of the injury. The jury may not be permitted to speculate as to its cause, and the ease must be withdrawn from its consideration unless there is evidence from which the inference may reasonably be drawn that the injury suffered was caused by the negligent act of the employer.’ Atchi. son. T. & S. F. R. Co. v. Toops, 281 U. S. 351, 354, 355 , 74 L. Ed. 896, 899, 909 , 50 S. Ct. 281 ; Chicago, M. & St. P. R. Co. v. Coogan, 271 U. S. 472 , 70 L. Ed. 1041 , 46 S. Ct. 564 ; Atchison, T. & S. F. R. Co. v. Saxon, 284 U. S. 458 , 76 L. Ed. 397 , 52 S. Ct. 229 .””
4 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.