State Ex Rel. Vulgamott v. Trimble’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently April 1965 · most notably Perkins v. Terminal Railroad Assn. (1937), State Ex Rel. Kansas City Southern Railway Co. v. Shain (1937)
67 state decisions
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 Walker v. Ames · Scrivner v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co. · Fussellman v. Wabash Railroad · Bruce v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy 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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The word `peril' as used in the rule `discovered peril,' `humanitarian rule,' or `last chance doctrine' means something more than a bare possibility of an injury occurring. . . . Through all the cases and the texts runs the idea of `peril,' and in a broader sense than the mere possibility of injury.”
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.