Conner v. Butler’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1993 · most notably Vickers v. Tumey (1961), Harris v. Pennsylvania Railroad (1959)
22 federal appellate · 23 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 Rogers v. Missouri Pacific Railroad · Ferguson v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co.
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We hold that the proofs were sufficient to submit to the jury the question whether employer negligence played a part in producing the petitioner's injury.”
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.