Tilton v. Missouri Pacific Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
143 federal appellate · 19 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 326 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2017 · most notably Franks v. Bowman Transportation Co. (1976), Alabama Power Co. v. Davis (1977)
143 federal appellate · 19 district · 8 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedDonald I. Tilton v. Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, Wilfred L. Beck, Jr. v. Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, Guy H. McClearn Jr. v. Missouri Pacific Railroad Company (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Fishgold v. Sullivan Drydock & Repair Corp. · Tilton v. Missouri Pacific Railroad · Trailmobile Co. v. Whirls · McKinney v. Missouri-Kansas-Texas 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 326 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This requirement is met if, as a matter of foresight, it was reasonably certain that advancement would have occurred, and if, as a matter of hindsight, it did in fact occur.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It would seen obvious that, in the case of a conflict between the terms of the Universal Military Training and Service Act and the terms of a private contract, the Act must control.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“returning veteran cannot claim a promotion that depends solely upon satisfactory completion of a prerequisite period of employment training unless he first works that period.”
7 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.