Union Pacific Railroad v. Sharp’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably Wallace v. Broyles (1998), Ashley County v. Pfizer, Inc. (2009)
6 federal appellate · 81 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
Applies 23 U.S.C. § 109 · 23 U.S.C. § 130 · 45 U.S.C. § 421
Relies on CSX Transportation, Inc. v. Easterwood · American Premier Underwriters, Inc. v. USX Corp. · Bowen v. State · Littlepage v. State · Ouachita Wilderness Institute v. Mergen
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“evidence of sufficient force and character to compel a conclusion one way or the other with reasonable certainty; it must force the mind to pass beyond suspicion or conjecture.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a)(1) It shall be the duty of all persons running trains in this state upon any railroad to keep a constant lookout for all persons, including licensees and trespassers, and property upon the track of any and all railroads. (2) If any person or property is killed or injured by the neglect of any employee of any railroad to keep a lookout, the company owning or operating any railroad or its agents, servants, and employ-eés shall be liable and responsible to the person injured for all damages resulting from neglect to keep a lookout.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that which in a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any efficient intervening cause, produces the injury, and without which the result would not have occurred.”
1 later decision 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.