Carson v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently February 1984 · most notably Knight v. Chicago Corp. (1945), Goldstein v. Gontarz (1974)
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 24 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 Wallace v. Ludwig · Glennen v. Boston Elevated Railway Co. · Work v. Boston Elevated Railway Co. · Holton v. Boston Elevated Railway Co. · Langan v. Pianowski
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Accordingly it is held that reasonable care under the circumstances is the highest degree of care — not the highest degree of care imaginable, but the highest degree of care that is consistent with the requirements of the public for speedy and inexpensive as well as safe transportation and with the practical operation of the business.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.