Great Northern Ry Co v. Leonidas’s Empirical Analysis
305 U.S. 1 · 1938
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 24 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2014 · most notably Ferguson v. Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc. (1957), Blair v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (1945)
6 federal appellate · 24 district · 36 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Seaboard Air Line Railway v. Horton · Jacobs v. Southern Railway Co. · Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. v. Ward · Baugham v. New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk 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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ Despite this erroneous ruling, we are of the opinion that the judgment should be affirmed upon the first ground taken by the state court, that is, that the question of assumption of risk was for the jury. It is not contended that the instructions of the trial court upon that defense were erroneous. The contention is that there was no evidence to go to the jury. We think that there was.” Emphasis supplied.”
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.