Palmer v. Connecticut Railway & Lighting Co.’s Empirical Analysis
311 U.S. 544 · 1941
Citation profile
130 federal appellate · 25 district · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 369 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2024 · most notably Anderson v. Mt. Clemens Pottery Co. (1946), Bigelow v. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. (1946)
130 federal appellate · 25 district · 56 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedConnecticut Ry. & Lighting Co. v. Palmer (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Story Parchment Co. v. Paterson Parchment Paper Co. · Eastman Kodak Co of New York v. Southern Photo Materials Co · United States v. Behan · Sheldon v. Metro-Goldwyn Pictures Corp. · Central Trust Co. v. Chicago Auditorium Ass'n
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 369 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(t)he ways compensatory damages may be proven are many”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Litigation over a 999-year lease naturally brings up incidents difficult to reconcile with known and established legal formulae. Since conveyancers and business men alike have long utilized the characteristic provisions of leases to accomplish transfers of rights in real estate for extensive periods without payment of the purchase price, such long term agreements have become a well recognized legal implement, especially in corporate realty transactions and railroad consolidations and mergers.””
2 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.