Atchison Ry Co v. Saxon’s Empirical Analysis
284 U.S. 458 · 1932
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 134 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1957 · most notably Ferguson v. Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc. (1957), Showalter v. Western Pacific Railroad (1940)
40 federal appellate · 77 state decisions — followed in 12 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 Atchison Ry Co v. Toops · New York Cent Co v. Ambrose
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 134 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Nobody saw the accident; no one can say with fair certainty how it occurred. Consistently with the facts disclosed, it might have happened in one of several ways and without causal negligence by the petitioner (Bailroad Company). * * * What occasioned this distressing accident can only be surmised. It was necessary to show causal negligence in order to establish the respondent’s right to recover. The evidence fails to meet this requirement.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““As often pointed out, one who claims under the Federal Act must in some adequate way establish negligence and causal connection between this and the injury. N. Y. Central Railroad Co. v. Arm brose, 280 U. S. 486 , 50 S. Ct. 198 , 74 L. Ed. 562 ; Atchison, T. & S. F. Ry. v. Toops, 281 U. S. 354 , 50 S. Ct. 281 , 74 L. Ed. 896 .””
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.